blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our … - Lucille Clifton

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Nobody's going to like my next movie because they liked Trainwreck [2015]. It has to work on its own, and that keeps it really scary.

Lucille Clifton

blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

Blessing, Entering, Eye, Fear, Kissing, Wind

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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

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Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

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You cannot play for safety and make art.

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I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

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I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

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