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Poetry is life distilled. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Love
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world. – Gwendolyn Brooks

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Health
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Poetry

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. – Abbas Kiarostami

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Poetry

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

Ive often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what its been doing to my poetry when Im not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. – George Murray

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Poetry

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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. – Henri Matisse

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

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If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because Id have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve… If I was gay, at this stage of the game—age 37, aging alternative icon—Id be taking out ads. – Henry Rollins

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I dont like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. Its a real cheap line. Im feeling good. Im feeling real grateful for everything. Its a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, theyre wrong. – Nicolas Cage

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Gratitude