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Allen Ginsberg
Roger Bygott • 2 cards
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
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Mary Oliver Wild Geese
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
it is the most fundamental act of our species: to sustain the body until time leaves it behind.
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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From Poems
Rich Carlton • 1 card
Walk With An Old Dog
by Gayl Jokiel
Because you will not be forever
Hope against time though I may
I paint your picture in my memory
Eyes blue with age, muzzle gone gray.
Because you walked with me in Springtime
Puppy-clumsy, running free
As you grew, we grew together
You became a part of me.
Because you shared with me my sorrows
Not understanding – simply
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.
Matt Haig • The Humans
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to
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