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Sarah Kay Quotes: Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
         

Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.


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Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.



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You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.



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I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.





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