Good Sentences

Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.—Sylvia Plath

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Impregnatable people, in the right-wing conception, constitute a distinct, female, and subhuman class: a resource that requires domination due to the value of what can be extracted.

—Charlotte Shane

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This is all we have in this life all we own: a flowering an opening a gap between stones for tiny tender roots.

— Linda Buckmaster

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Now is the season to know That everything you do Is sacred.

—Hafiz

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And who will be accountable for this regret I see no way to avoid?

—Charif Shanahan

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How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

—Stanley Kunitz

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This is the city that saw the raw mass of me, the quick and slow of me, the I’m afraid and I can’t of me, the it’s beyond me side of me. 

—Claudia Castro Luna

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all I will say is goodnight patting a few last strands in place you're covered now my darling one last graze in the meadow of you

—Paul Monette

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If I can’t save us

then let me feel you happy and safe under my chin.

—Lynna Odel

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A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.

—Naomi Shihab Nye

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Oak leaves so full of late summer

sun even I thought, “Obscene” and stood stunned for a moment.

—Gabrielle Calvocoressi

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Sometimes you have to go ahead and do the most important things, the things you believe in, and not wait until years later, when you say, “I wish I had gone, done, kissed.”

—Audrey Sutherland

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If tenderness approaches, run to it. 

—Henri Cole

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We are stripped to the bone and we swim in tandem and go up and up the river, the identical river called Mine and we enter together.

—Anne Sexton

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And being known, or at least, being treated as knowable and worth knowing, is the most comforting thing in the universe.

—Jazmine Hughes

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We know we are doomed, done for, damned, and still the light reaches us, falls on our shoulders even now,

even here where the moon is hidden from us, even though the stars are so far away.

—Dorianne Laux

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How few centuries have let women be girls first, swirling as long as they wanted into their sweetness and sharpening to ripeness, only becoming women once full heavy love was their desire inside and out. —Brenda Shaughnessy

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Black cat sleeping (you used to be  next to me) next to me dreams our lost telepathy. —Rebecca Wolff