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A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

A poem isn’t selfish. It speaks to people.
– Wallace Stegner

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  6. [I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband. – Wallace Stegner
  7. You can’t retire to weakness — you’ve got to learn to control strength. – Wallace Stegner
  8. Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. – Wallace Stegner
  9. I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from. – Wallace Stegner
  10. Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth… – Wallace Stegner
  11. Truly speaking -finding happiness is to do with being selfish, but that doesn’t mean true selfish – Praveen Chenna
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  20. The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name. – Dejan Stojanovic
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  25. The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. … the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both… – Frederick Buechner
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  38. Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely. – Laura Esquivel
  39. The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways. – Unarine Ramaru
  40. Art speaks to everyone but some people don’t listen. – C Vallo

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