Creation happens by itself, but it includes you as part of it. . . . If you listen and follow the wind from spirit, you will see yourself as one of those pieces falling together.
---Evan Pritchard

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Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.
---Denise Levertov

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
--Kahlil Gibran

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