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Neither a person entirely broken
nor one entirely whole can speak.
—Jane Hirshfield
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Speak truth

Speak truth to disempower.

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The only safe space

The only safe space is the danger zone.

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To break

It's so easy to break, so hard to be broken.

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Monday, March 24, 2025

The purpose of life

The purpose of life is to determine the meaning of life.

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Easier

It is easier to accommodate too many people than too many agendas.

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So many words

So many words, so little time.

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Sunday, March 23, 2025

How much

Concern yourself not with how often a thing has been said but with how much it still needs to be said.

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The sacrosanct

Review most assiduously the sacrosanct, and censure it, where it merits censure, most enthusiastically.

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Uninterpreted

What is uninterpreted is hardly heard.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The second-greatest accomplishment

The second-greatest accomplishment is to make a different mistake.

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If I spell it out

If I spell it out for you it's not for your benefit but because I like knowing how it is spelled.

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My assets

I deployed my assets along the edge of the abyss.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Sleep

Sleep is the left hand of being.

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My dreams

My dreams were too good: the world paled beside them.

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Life skips

Life skips when you put the dream on repeat.

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Is it?

Is it that what is loved will be lost, or that what is lost will be loved?

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Some struggle

Some struggle to know what's wrong with the world; some, what's right in it.

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Always

Billions of little bubbles of identity, always beautiful, always popping.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

We spend more time

We spend more time predicting rain than ruin.

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Life & dream

Life should be a dream and dream should be a life.

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Our profound duty

It is our profound duty to question questionable claims.

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Monday, March 10, 2025

On automation

If a robot or an AI can do a job, then a robot or an AI should do that job, because it is a chore, not an avenue to human exploration or growth.

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Everything I love

Is everything I love art or is art everything I love?

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Better

Better pity than piety.

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Sunday, March 09, 2025

Not king

In the country of traitors, the true democrat (small d) is not king.

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Better

Better we be compensated for living our lives well.

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On people

People are fickle, except when they're not.

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Saturday, March 08, 2025

Humanity

Humanity, being one part animal, one part religion, and one part society, never had a chance.

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New poems

+15

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Friday, March 07, 2025

It is equal

It is equal to point at excrement and call it gold and to point at gold and call it excrement.

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The demands

The demands are detrimental.

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The quality of popular culture

The quality of popular culture depends a great deal upon the charms and virtues of the culture.

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Monday, March 03, 2025

To work so hard

We should not have to work so hard to separate ourselves from the system of work.

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On novels

I think I tired of novels when they stopped making me feel anything new.

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I don't know

Is everything one ever says other than "I don't know" a lie?

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Saturday, March 01, 2025

To distinguish

To distinguish is to diminish.

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New poems

+15

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