Jem

Do You Think This World Is Only An Entertainment For You?

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Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you?

Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides

with perfect courtesy, to let you in!

Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass!

Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over the dark acorn of your heart!

No wonder we hear, in your mournful voice, the complaint

that something is missing from your life!

—Mary Oliver

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    Nothing is predestined, the obstacles from your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. — Ralph Blum
  • Frighten Me Into The Present
    Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present… That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral. — Jack Gilbert from poem I Imagine the Gods
  • Let Me Fall In Love One Last Time
    Let me at least fail at my life. Think, they say patiently, we could make you famous again. Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. — Jack Gilbert from poem I Imagine the Gods
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    If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive. — Audre Lorde