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“More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild”

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Diane di Prima is an American poet born on August 6, 1934. Her poetry is known for its unique style and profound exploration of the female experience. more

“Pritkin gave me a little shake and I eyed him without favor. The only other occasions when I had been dragged back in time, the trip had been triggered by proximity to a person whose past was being threatened. I have to tell you,” I said frankly, “if someone is trying to mess with your conception or something, I’m not feeling a pressing need to intervene.”

Ifs Needs Trying Littles Persons Said Feelings Past Favors Mess Occasions Shakes Conception Threatened Proximity Back In Time

Book:Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

Source: Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5

“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”

People Ifs Art Next Nice Generations Fashion Design Painting Accounts Dialogue Who We Are Next Generation Nice Things Free Time Fashion Design Painting And Poetry

Author:Michelle Obama

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.”

World Believe Seems Age Desire Reading I Believe Seven Painful Granted Fulfilled Texture Inadequate

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so little; one imagines, in spite of oneself, that sooner or later something is bound to happen. A big mistake. A life can just as well be both empty and short. The days slip by indifferently, leaving neither trace nor memory; and then all of a sudden they stop.”

Humans Wells Littles Bigs Seems Happens Dies Memories Existence Mistake Imagine Empty Bounds Leaving Oneself Spite Slips Sooner Or Later Human Existence Improbable Big Mistake

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“I don't like this world. I definitely do not like it. The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke.”

World This World Computer Advertising Disgusting Puke

Book:Whatever: A Novel

Source: Whatever: A Novel

“There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.”

Wind Dawn Grass Dusk

Book:Collected Poems, 1917-1982

Source: Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.”

Children Hard Might Spirituality Understanding Challenges Opinion Teaching Humility Hard Work Training Perseverance Intuitive Perseverance And Hard Work

Author:James E. Faust

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