Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical … - Robert Hayden

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Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you--whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)

Robert Hayden

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

Bright, Dark, Kindness, Mouth, Moving, Names

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As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

Discovery, Possibility, Rewriting, Writing

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

Art, Escape, Order, Way

We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.

Evil, Frightened, Human, Monsters, Political, Struggle

I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.

100, Believe, Differences, Make, People

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality. . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

Definitions, Discovery, Grips, Poetry, Reality