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“Girls are cruelest to themselves.”

Book:The Glass Essay

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The Glass Essay

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Anne Carson

Anne Carson, born on June 21, 1950, is a renowned Canadian poet. Her works are known for their unique style and profound themes, covering a range of subjects including philosophy, history, and literature. more

“to know a country takes all we know of love: some days better than others, but never easy to keep our promise every morning of every year, of every century, and wake up, stumble downstairs with all our raging hope, sit down at the kitchen table again, still blurry-eyed, still tired, and say: Listen, we need to talk.”

Love Country America Poetry Poem Improving What I Know Of Country

Book:How to Love a Country

Source: How to Love a Country

“No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

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Book:Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”

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Author:Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi

“You are so beautiful now, I’ll surrender now. I have no more prayers in me, just this loving and bad poetry.”

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Book:Bad Poetry and This Loving

Source: Bad Poetry and This Loving

“The sky grows dark The Black over blue Yet the stars still dare To shine for you”

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Author:Matt Haig

“We have a merciful god that we should commend 'Cause our hope is beyond our sin, dear friend Nobody can open the door that God closed O fountain of my eyes, break the dim dead end”

Poetry Literature Poem Quote

Author:Saadi Shirazi

“Courage determines who is a hawk and who's a fly We will never be as kind as the Lord if we try I have heard that Paradise is the reward for those who Fulfill the wishes of the people who look at the sky”

Poetry Literature Poem Quote

Author:Shahid Balkhi

“My Jewish problem is figuring out why America in 2016 has a dab of 1930s German Fascism to it-- people at political rallies yelling crap about the Jews.”

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Author:Bob Hicok

“they came to these islands and low hills which lift up from a land where we have set a lamp with a golden torch on top, to remind us, here at the door: entering through it was a promise to leave it open behind us.”

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Author:Sharon Olds

“There are things that cannot be seen but must be.”

Poetry Poem Emmett Till

Author:Kevin Young

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