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Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymou
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1Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter
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by Robinson Jeffers When the sun shouts and people abound1 One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze
by Charles Baudelaire Translated by Richard Howard (I) February, peeved1 at Paris, pours a gloomy torrent2 on the pale l
by Jean-Michel Maulpoix He remains1 there for a long time, starting at the blue, motionless and stiff, as if in a church
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What is poetry? Is it a mosaicOf coloured stones which curiously1 are wroughtInto a pattern? Rather glass that's taughtB
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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. -- Anonymous1Know her mind and you can have her body, know he
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by James Longenbach Stars rising like something said, something never To be forgotten, shining forever look How still th
by Mark McMorris Soon the rushlights will go out in the flesh of sympathetic bodies once close to my own hand and I will
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by Liam Rector Dressed in an old coat I lumber1 Down a street in the East Village, time itself Whistling up my ass2 and
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all ignorance toboggans into knowand trudges1 up to ignorance again:but winter's not forever,even snowmelts;and if sprin
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