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“We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.”

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“A rain like melting pillows… a rain so beautiful I could never have let go of if not certain that someday...it would find its way into my poem.”

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Book:A Thousand Flamingos

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“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.”

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Book:A Thousand Flamingos

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“a single poem the thing that can keep me light on my feet, when my soul is heavy with sorrow.”

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Book:A Thousand Flamingos

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“May the nights always be aglow with the bliss of the day with unharmed hands and feet and kissed cheeks.”

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“Watch, how the sun slowly rises from behind my ear new lines, new countries spring up in my palms my rough hair become swaying silk and all the leaves in my body become lusher than fruits.”

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Book:A Thousand Flamingos

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“Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River

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“Her sweat is my scent”

Book:A Lover's Will

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“For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not where do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The how is the mystery. The how is fragile.”

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Book:Talk, Talk : A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups

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“We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.”

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“It might seem like the easier way to get rid of a poet would be just to take him out to the backyard, have him kneel between the cans with tomato plants in them and put a bullet in his brain. But they knew from history that it doesn't work to kill a writer. Every time you shoot a poet,a dozen new ones are born. It's like plucking a grey hair.”

Book:The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

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