“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”
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2. From "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop:
"It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master,
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."
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3. From "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman:
"I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles."
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4. From "Little Red Cap" by Carol Ann Duffy:
"Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head
Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood
But then I was young."
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5. From "Variations on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood:
"I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
and that necessary."
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