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• I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold.

  Mahmoud Darwish

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• The rain pelts the world on pause.

  Tanja Kobasic

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• Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

  Mahmoud Darwish

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• We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.

  Rob Bignell

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• The poem is in my hands, and can run stories through her hands.

  Mahmoud Darwish

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• Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.

  Leza Lowitz

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• Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

  Leza Lowitz

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• …we went to watch the waves that bitter day and the wind took your red cap and mittens – blew them into the sea…

  John Geddes

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• We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.

  Rob Bignell

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• poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

  John Geddes

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• …the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows…

  John Geddes

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• In practicing the art of confusion, there is no better weapon than poetry.

  Susan Hubbard

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• The lion sleeps in the sun.
  its nose on its paws.
  it can kill a man.

  Wallace Stevens

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• The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.

  Bianca C

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• Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

  Ray Bradbury

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• Poetry is more than a form of art. It’s a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it’s sour or whether it’s sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat.

  Stanley Victor Paskavich

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• …I’m innocent still -inside me are stained glass windows that have never been broken- and when I see your light it stains my soul with color …

  John Geddes

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• forge forever on
  tho’ dark death rewards us all
  forge forever on.

  Kurt Brindley

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• …before you, life was desolate – the past hardly worth remembering – and now, each moment a keepsake I can’t throw away …

  John Geddes

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• …who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children’s eyes…?

  John Geddes

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