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A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East

by Tiziano Terzani

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“If I am not crushed
by cliff slide
I will become
the summit”
― Karla Linn Merrifield, Lithic Scatter and Other Poems

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“you will never catch up.
Walk around feeling like a leaf
know you could tumble at any second.
Then decide what to do with your time.

--The Art of Disappearing”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

tags: poetry

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“The size of the place that one becomes
a member of is limited only by
the size of one鈥檚 heart.”
― Gary Snyder

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“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
― Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry

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“How weightless
words are when nothing will do.”
― Philip Levine, Breath

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