A Blue Planet

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We live on a blue planet that circles around a ball of fire next to a moon that moves the sea, and you don’t believe in miracles?

As Necessary As Bread

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Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. ~ Mary Oliver

Art Has Two Faces

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. ~ Lester Bangs