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Timing

Posted on April 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

Whether I come into my own today, or in ten thousand years
I can cheerfully take it now–with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

–Walt Whitman

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The Job of the Poet

Posted on December 8, 2010 | Leave a comment

“The job of the poet is not to wait until the cry gathers in the throat.”

–Archibald MacLeish

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