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“I’m not afraid of being alone. I’m afraid of needing people who never notice I’m missing.”

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“To draw our borders, we needed more than firecakes. More than a pound of meat with bone and gristle, or salt fish and a gill of peas. We needed the faith and grit of people who were not yet Americans.”

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Author:Aileen Cassinetto

“To be an American is to recognize the sacrifice of the widow and the orphan; it is to understand the weft of tent cities expecting caravans, and the heft of a child in a camp not meant for children, or sitting before a judge awaiting judgement. What do we say to the native whose lands we now inhabit? What do we say to our immigrant fathers who held certain truths to be self-evident? Do we now still pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor. There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple again and again.”

America Poetry Democracy Sacrifice Kings Poem Immigrants Native Americans Founding Fathers

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“& as for ya’ll tired, ya’ll poor ya’ll huddled masses yearning to breathe free Fuck ya’ll!”

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Book:Martian: The Saint of Loneliness

Source: Martian: The Saint of Loneliness

“The only day in life where the sun doesn’t set is called hope.”

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“What's the winter for? To remember love.”

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Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“The terrible energy of the dead.”

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Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“I hate being hated even though I provoke it, not by committing major wrongs like murder, more like a regular pattern of being selfish or forgetful, which is another word for selfish.”

Poetry Poem Hatred Selfishness Forgetfulness

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“I never want to ask please fix us all I want for us to want to patch every heart and pave every road and destroy every system that has ever left us broken.”

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“I want to stop smoking because I want to live, I can only love my comrades if I live, and I want to clean my room, I want to clean my room every week and make my bed and put peppermint in my hair to stop needing my inhalers and to inhale solidarity, and to eat the rich, I want to eat the rich, to cancel the rents, to know my neighbors and to know my neighbors are safe. I want to move like water, to move from unity to struggle to unity, to have no perfect world we haven’t fought for.”

Love Life Poetry Poem Safety Unity Wants Neighbors

Author:Jordan Jace

“Love wants to be fed. It will return again and again, holding a memory firmly in its jaws, and you must throw or keep. It will grow old, too weak to walk. You’ll carry it everywhere at the end until it nods, turns in a circle, lies down.”

Love Poetry Poem Memory Dogs Pets

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