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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.


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You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.



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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.



I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.



Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.



It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.



Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.



In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.



Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.



One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.



But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.





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The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.



The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.



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We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.



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I always think coming out is something that you do for people who really deserve it. It should be.



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