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Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

Marie Ponsot
Feelings, Way, Priceless

Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

Marie Ponsot
Letting Go, Sleep, Doubt
Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

I stand above the tree level I am a tree I catch wind storm breaths My branches claw I drink sky It stretches me I don't care I catch jokes and luck from tall thin blue air

Marie Ponsot
Wind, Sky, Air

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