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‘Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.’
Renée Carlino • Before We Were Strangers: A Love Story
I can't stop thinking about this poem by Khalil Gibran:
Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."
And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and Sorrow."
And he answered: Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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"We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning."
Sandra Cisneros • The House on Mango Street
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,” says poet Naomi Shihab Nye, “you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
my body a shoreline and yours the ocean,
David Whyte • The Sea in You: Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love
In recovery when I threw myself into poetry, I was drawn to poems that were certain of nothing, poems that embraced mystery instead of trying to resolve it.