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A speck of ire can
blaze a fire; the fate of war can
be sealed with a dart,
a butterfly flapping its wings
may turn the tide miles apart!


Somali K Chakrabarti

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On paper, a butterfly
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can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
SANOBER KHAN I turned.
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by some group from the last century called the
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and no sugar c...
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A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
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A bird does not fall in air.
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That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese
And burnt-out little ey...
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I thought, now is the time to step...
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Be careful of words,
even the miraculous ones.
For the miraculous ...
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where nothing at all needs saying,
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But in the heart of winter, you want a ...
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Catch the air
around the butterfly.
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That's how I feel-
like the winter-fringed
breeze might scoop
me up ...
ELLEN HOPKINS STAINS
With red clay between my toes,
and the sun setting over my head,
the ghost of ...
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panther poised in a cypress tree about ...
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The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings
The rabid bite of ...
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The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,
The rabid bite of t...
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Flowing so freely with every drop
Let my every emotion wo...
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Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart
W...
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You can climb it and cross to...
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Trillionai...
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And breaks apart...
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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In life's ocean vast and wide,
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That fair, sweet, summer morn!
At a turn i...
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To him, who turns a musing eye
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I like for you to be still
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with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire...
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is vital
otherwise the butterfly
surrounded by a group of moths
u...
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Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
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A thousand miles away from you
I sit and write for you
A th...
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A voice that cries against a mighty wrong;
And full of d...
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nonresistant... When you overcome
negative with posit...
VAL UCHENDU Communication


Is a work of art

Some are normally born with it

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of demons, and nothing escapes the dark
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I am born as the sun,
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or
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& ...
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with mouth...
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B...
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You want to cry aloud for your
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Before you examine the body of a patient,
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of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silenc...
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Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
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and something to write with, and then
I can turn the world ...
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Like troubles mounting by the pound.

Its stature...
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that soft summer morning
round a turning in the...
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Me with promises. Vows
are cheaply manufactured,
come with no gua...
ELLEN HOPKINS Like a comet pulled from orbit,
As it passes a sun.
Like a stream that meets a boulder, ...
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Cloud ribbons on wings
Dramatic cerulean sky
A feast for the ey...
TARA ESTACAAN Butterfly.
What a beautiful word
What a delicate creature.
Delicate like the cruel wo...
COLLEEN HOOVER A word of consolation
may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clea...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If you are feeling lost,
helpless,
down,
sad,
angry,
betrayed,
you nam...
ALICIA COOK the pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm not giving up

You're not giving in

This battle will turn into a war
<...
COLLEEN HOOVER The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
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K. A. APPLEGATE Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawin...
K. A. APPLEGATE One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is...
K. A. APPLEGATE When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it...
K. A. APPLEGATE I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. APPLEGATE I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and...
K. A. APPLEGATE I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show.....
K. A. APPLEGATE As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. APPLEGATE Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
K. A. APPLEGATE I grew up with a menagerie of dogs, cats, gerbils - not to mention three younger siblings.
K. A. APPLEGATE I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When anim...
K. A. APPLEGATE Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to...
LOUIS C. K. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ...
J. K. ROWLING Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. ROWLING Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. ROWLING It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. ROWLING Coincidences are spiritual puns.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. ROWLING The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understandin...
J. K. ROWLING It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are st...
N. K. JEMISIN I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my liv...
J. K. SIMMONS Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my...
SHARON K. GARNER