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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

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I am deeply grateful to the women who really blazed the way-poets like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath and Maxine Kumin.

I am Rita Dove,
the beautiful dove.
See my black neck,
see my speck.
My ass is not so much cracked
but i want to get out now.
The poet, am I.
Am me.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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