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Elizabeth Smart
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“You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.”
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“I am possessed by love and have no options.”
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“All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.”
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“Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.”
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“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”
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“Words, my horses, roam unbroken / In my head, or, tethered, / Wait their wandering master's ride.”
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“I talk in riddles. I'd rather speak plainly. / But some ways are still unmapped.”
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“It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.”
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“O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?”
Elizabeth Smart, U.S. poet
(1913 - 1986)