patience
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‘For a Moment’ by Ron Padgett
It’s funny howif you just let goof things they will come toyou. That is to saysometimes. So what good is such ageneralization?Ah, it makes you feel good to saysuch things fromtime to time, as if you actuallyand really and trulyknew something! Source: Padgett, Ron. Collected Poems. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Coffee House Press, 2013, p. 415.
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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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“The sky is a very bad parent”
The sky is a very bad parent impatient, grinding its teeth, hyperventilating as its baby wahs and wails and flails and vomits all over its parent’s prettiest things and the parent grabs its little darling a little too tight a taut smile a slight tear traps it under an arm and marches into the kitchen…
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