I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

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I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

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A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

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Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

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If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

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My day begins and ends with gratitude and joy.

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Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ― Mark Strand

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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

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