Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. - Czeslaw Milosz

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Tears stung her eyes. She sank her knees next to the sleeping bench and gently raked strands of golden hair from him forehead. "Don't you die. don't you dare. I forbid it. " As if Han Alister had ever listened to anything she said.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

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Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

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On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A fisherman mends a glimmering net.

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