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Warsan Shire, from "Extreme Girlhood", Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
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"when I'm alone, I'm with the person who tried to kill me" john baby you really hit the nail on the head w that one
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— Malia Makana, from “Like Differently Love.”
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Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters
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Warsan Shire, from “Backwards”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
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Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
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I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
Frank O'Hara, from Selected Poems; "Meditations in an Emergency"
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a mary oliver quote that peeled me like a fruit
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Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem
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“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
— Miranda July, from It Chooses You
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can anyone remember that post about how children write the best poems & it had an article attached showing the differences between little kids' poetry & preteens?? im desperate to find it again
ok i found it! it's called the average fourth grader is a better poet than you (and me too)
here are three of my favourite excerpts
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Ocean Vuong, from “Tell Me Something Good.”
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Blythe Baird, from If My Body Could Speak; “Theories about the universe”
[Text ID: “When I want something / with my whole being, and the universe withholds it / from me, I hope the universe thinks to herself, / Silly girl. She thinks this is what she wants, / but she does not understand how it will hurt.”]
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every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver: “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again
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“It’s a dynamic we understand: I lovingly tease him; he makes the entire world feel safer for me.”
— People We Meet On Vacation | Emily Henry