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I am a poet. Poets take the beauty from ashes.

— Toyin Adewale-Gabriel Olayimika (2023)

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Poetry is always my best friend, a ready platform, when l need to testify for myself and society.

I am a woman of faith and l find the Bible inspirational for living and writing.

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Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

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True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.

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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

André Gide The Immoralist (1902)

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece (1594)

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