I am the evergreen with fading needles
roots deep in sandy soils
slightly burned from ancient fires
a home to only the survivors
Tenille K. Campbell, I am not a wild strawberry
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And I sing, again, those songs because I know
The value of sweet music when we need to pass
The time without wondering what rots beneath our feet.
Jericho Brown, Shovel
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I declare
That later on,
Even in an age unlike our own,
Someone will remember who we are.
Sappho, I declare
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On they went then in darkness, through the lonely
Shadowing night, a nowhere of deserted dwellings,
Dim phantasmal reaches where Pluto is king--
Like following a forest path by the hovering light
Of a moon that clouds and unclouds at Jupiter's whim,
While the colours of the world pall in the gloom.
Seamus Heaney, Aeneid Book VI
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In front of us the way is seen, but behind us the road is gone.
Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts
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Words and eggs must be handled with care.
Once broken they are impossible
things to repair.
Anne Sexton, Words
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Her beauty was great enough to excite
if not his desires in the night
his suspicions and jealousy.
Marie de France, Yonec
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"You grow up readin' about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's all full of amazin' things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hangin' about for millions of years."
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering
Blue and mystical over the face of the stars.
Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree
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The lilacs, bending many a year,
With purple load will hang;
The bees will not forget the tune
Their old forefathers sang.
Emily Dickinson, The springtime's pallid landscape
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"Let her know you're there. And if you can manage it, bring her a cookie, a book, a movie to watch. Friendship . . . is kind of like having a Tamagotchi."
Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Sun makes the day new.
Tiny green plants emerge from earth.
Birds are singing the sky into place.
There is nowhere else I want to be but here.
I lean into the rhythm of your heart to see where it will take us.
Joy Harjo, For Keeps
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The thing about a mirror is this: The one who stares into it is condemned to consider the world from her own perspective.
Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror
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I don't know what I'm saying. I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Good news--past the age of thirty there's a dramatic decrease to your chances of being murdered by a serial killer.
Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread
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for all of March I've felt the water rising
& I've measured what I knew.
Emily Skaja, Self-Portrait with Hawk & Armada
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They were nothing more than people, by themselves. Even paired, any pairing, they would have been nothing more than people by themselves. But all together, they have become the heart and muscles and mind of something perilous and new, something strange and growing and great.
Together, all together, they are the instruments of change.
Keri Hulme, The Bone People
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