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Genevieve Taggard
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“Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.”
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“Singing is best, it gives right joy to speech.”
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“Planting for future people with sure hands / Is pleasure of the purest. Live and unfold!”
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“Try tropic for your balm, / Try storm, / After storm, calm. / Try snow of heaven, heavy, soft and slow, / Brilliant and warm. / Nothing will help, and nothing do much harm.”
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“Good poets need teachers, friends, or an occasional stranger / To say, Are you sure? I don't agree. It was an indulgent dream.. / Or, Be sober, beloved. We work this side of the dark.”
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“The lavish words we write / Need a base on level stone. / ... / Oh Poetry-To-Come / Lay what is most exact / For the door-sill of your home.”
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“Summer is delicately made. / While it is, it is ceasing.”
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“In the dark / Defiant even now, it tugs and moans / To be untangled from these mother's bones.”
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“China is a long caravan, longer and stronger than the Wall.”
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“To sit together drinking the blue ocean / And eating the sun like a fruit.”
Genevieve Taggard, U.S. poet, educator
(1894 - 1948)