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Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

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Marie Howe

We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.

Alive, Firsts, Help, Stay, Stories
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Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

Alive, Knows, Dies, Poetry, Die, Knowledge

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable. . . The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Complexes, Complicated, Silence, Unspeakable

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

Historian, Memories, Memory, Poet

Bedeviled,
human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words
that even now sleep on your tongue, and to know that tangled
among them and terribly new is the sentence that could change your life.

Bedeviled, Plight, Sleep, Tangled, Tongue, Words

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story. . . told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Becomes, Body, Forget, Stories, Told
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