"Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

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“I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.”
“I was very dramatic as a kid. I loved to entertain. I was taking my bathing suits and painting them black and putting sparkles on them because I thought I was going to be on stage.”
“I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.”
“I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.”
“In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.”
“The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?”

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“My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.”
“Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.”

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