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“If you can't be free, be a mystery.”

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Rita Dove is an American poet born on August 28, 1952. Her works are known for their profound social insight and emotional expression, having won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. more

“He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with him on the bed, holding his hand...This was what he yearned to capture on film: these rare moments where the world seemed unified, coherent, everything contained in a single fleeting image. A spareness that held beauty and hope and motion - a kind of silvery poetry, just as the body was poetry in blood and flesh and bone.”

World Kind Moments Body Hands Film Father Water Blood Drink Bed Bones Flesh Sat Capture Orange Fleeting Stairs Unified Aspirin Rare Moments

Author:Kim Edwards

“This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.”

World Sometimes Hard Fighting Achieve Granted Precarious Took For Granted

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

“A moment might be a thousand different things.”

Different Moments Might Father Thousand Different Things

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

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