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“The more I put grief into a poem, the more I am able to move freely through the world because I have named it, spoken it, and thrown it out into the sky.” ~Ada Limon

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“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.” ~Franz Wright

“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

“and may you in your innocence/sail through this to that.” ~Lucille Clifton

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” ~Wislawa Szymborksa

“The greatest happiness of life is that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” ~Victor Hugo

“Make the moment vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ~Martha Graham

“Loneliness is still time spent with the world.” ~Ocean Vuong

“You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.” ~Louise Erdrich

“When you live in a world/Well it gets in to who you thought you’d be/And now I laugh at how the world changed me/I think life chose me/After all ” ~Dar Williams