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the anchor man
thrown overboard
has simply rooted us
in history's repeating cycle


Saul Williams

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To move simply:
To look softly:
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A gentle kind of togethe...
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Not the God of don'ts,
Not the God w...
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dilemma/ i havent conque...
NTOZAKE SHANGE If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

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The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

It is in t...
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A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!” STEPHEN CRANE This is bad," said Jace.
"You said that before."
"It seemed worth repeating.
CASSANDRA CLARE (Sid's suicide note:)
WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN...
SID VICIOUS for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
RUPI KAUR If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
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Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN Through countless births in the cycle of existence
I have run, not finding
although seek...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Coincidences undeniably imply meaning.

I am rereading Hart Crane.
I notice the date<...
DAVID MARKSON And no matter what
closet we were thrown in,
up what river we were sold
for an emb...
KRISTEN HENDERSON The poet was a fool
who wanted no conflict
among us, gods
or people.
Harmony nee...
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may ripple from end to end,
but tossed into the sea,
it is ...
CRAIG FROMAN To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Quoth the Raven," said a glitching voice from the phone.

"Nevermore," said the man.
RAO UMAR JAVED To get the whole world out of bed
And washed, and dressed, and warmed, and fed,
To work, and b...
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"God abides in men,
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Man is constantly build...
IRVIN KAUFFMAN they simply never understand,
do they,
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is
one of the mos...
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Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fell...
MARGARET ATWOOD they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
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Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods.
Our dre...
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A man wants to be free
flying in the emptiness of the universe
He thi...
ASPER BLURRY Every man has a weakness!” he patiently explained. “I'll find theirs, I promise you.”
�...
JULIE GARWOOD Bleeding for a decade

For a decade,
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ARZUM UZUN ...and when we die
we die alone
I cry, I cry alone
Like a piece of stone
I am...
MUNIA KHAN ADVERSE REVERSE

Advanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior...
KAMIL ALI I like to prowl ordinary places.
I feel sorry for us all or glad for us
all
caught a...
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Every time your hope gets stuck in the deeps,
And you wonder ...
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Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For...
W.B. YEATS Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums,
Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,<...
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC A wise man will always allow a fool to rob him of ideas without yelling “Thief.”
If he is w...
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NEIL GAIMAN Follow, poet, follow right
To the bottom of the night,
With your unconstraining voice
W.H. AUDEN At the sixes and sevens of our mind
lead us oh Lord in Thy might
In the moment to decide o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Pour, varlet, pour the water
The water steaming hot!
A spoonful for each man of us
An...
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In america,
I place my ring
on your cock
where it belon...
ESSEX HEMPHILL Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise...
MAYA ANGELOU Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning
...
MARY OLIVER What's the deal? Why can't he look
into my eyes when I have words
of appreciation lined u...
TANYA GAMBHIR YOUR GREATER ANIMAL


They say that if you are
Ever confronted by
A lion or...
SUZY KASSEM THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER

The man in the corner
Is dying with words
He's crying...
SUZY KASSEM I am a sailor, you're my first mate
We signed on together, we coupled our fate
Hauled up...
JOHN MCDERMOTT I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER I that in heill was and gladnèss
Am trublit now with great sickness
And feblit with infir...
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'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.'
'Headless?'...
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I broke something, Old Man.
How badly i...
JAMES FREY Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow...
And w...
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Try to commit an act of writing
and...
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He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a vir...
SUZY KASSEM I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg.
I Name you Calvin.
I Name you Mr. Jenkins.
I Nam...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.
Drizzt Do'Urden
R.A. SALVATORE Home

...Home.
...the word,
...has
...no
...meaning
ELLEN HOPKINS All life-forms are innocent, but man is the greatest innocent life-form that the universe has ever p...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN Thick is the darkness--
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway--
Onward, still o...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
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A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
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Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.
An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation
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Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind
If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good...
The guilty catch themselves.

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SAUL ALINSKY And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do witho...
SAUL BELLOW Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don't want to lie more than is average.
SAUL BELLOW Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic afflict...
SAUL BELLOW I might have added, as it entered my mind to do, that some people found satisfaction in being. Being...
SAUL BELLOW but that would have been neither fish or fowl.
SAUL LEVINE