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Before you decide what you think should be, make sure you understand what is.
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Once we have agreed that true love exists, we may consider its nature. It is not, as many misguided poets would have you believe, an event in and of itself; it is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been. One does not fall in love; one discovers it.
Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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If you only hear other people's words as triggers to tell your own story, beware.
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As we shut each door,
It locks: we cannot enter anymore.
A. E. Stallings, from "Lost and Found"
Labels: poetry
Nothing is as disturbing as realizing what your friends and neighbors think is real and true.
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Roanoke Review has accepted my poem "Made and Unmade" and will publish it in their 2020 edition.
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Choose wisely: things are often easier to pick up than they are to put down.
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