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“It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that grows in secretThat bears fruit in secretThat ripened falls to the ground in secretAnd manures t...”
“Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.”
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone love you.”
“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanit...”
“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”
“The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”
“If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but...”
“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”
“Night always turns to day again as long as the sun shall rise, so shall it be for darkened dreams grown pale from compromise”
“Its an already inside outside,The philosophers say its the soulBut its not the soul: its the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.”
“If you love someone, you NEED to tell them this:"I AM YOURS!NO ONE can make me change that. I SUBMIT my heart to you. I give you MY LIFE not because I have to but because I trust you to care for it...”
“I will sail upon a sea of light,My guide above and below the stars.My heart for you is in flightAnd I shall come to you in your arms this night”
“It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better...”
“If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.”
“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
“God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.”
“If this turns to friendship, it only meansThat one of us will suffer.That when we meet after the worst of endings,There will only be this skein of words between usMost of them for boredom, fewer fo...”
“Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.”
“STARS AND DANDELIONSDeep in the blue sky,like pebbles at the bottom of the sea,lie the stars unseen in daylightuntil night comes. You can't see them, but they are there. Unseen things are still the...”
