Sublime
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Carol Ann Duffy’s most famous poem, “Prayer.”
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
He must have realized his laugh was like one of those paper shredders making a sad confetti of my hopes.
Elizabeth Acevedo • Clap When You Land
‘I feel so mere and fractional without you.’
Sylvia Plath • The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956
the filling of the heart with goodness, as if it were a hive in which nothing corrupt could live.
Mary Oliver • New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
May the poems keep coming to meet me in the clearing, and may I not scare them back into the woods.
Maggie Smith • Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
If I am a rib, let me be the one closest to your heart–
synchrony was the only calligraphy they had in Eden.
I follow you around with my pen tip wet,
like a cat stalks little flying things and bits of Styrofoam.
You deserve more than the despair that stalks your days.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
Committing a poem to memory is like planting a new seed in your brain that can flower whenever you’d like.