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I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye
Heart, Soul, Mind
Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press
I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.