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Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Gary D. Schmidt

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Gary D. Schmidt
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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Hicksville
New York
Gary David Schmidt
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Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
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Maybe this happens to you every day, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I'd done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?
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Maybe the Snowy Heron is going to come off pretty badly when the planes come together. Maybe. But he's still proud and beautiful. His head is high, and he's got this sharp beak that's facing out to the world.He's okay for now.
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There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
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A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses
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Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
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...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. Holling, she said. I was so afraid I wouldn't fine you. I was standing right here, Heather. I said. I'll always be standing right here.
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I think he became a man who brought peace and wisdom to hi world, because he knew about war and folly. I think that he loved greatly, because he had seen what lost love is. And I think he came to know, too, that he was loved greatly. She looked at the strawberry in her hands. But I thought you didn't want me to tell you your future.
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There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
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Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
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Sometimes--and I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second--sometimes there can be perfect understanding between two people who can't stand each other. He smiled, and I smiled, and we put the Timex watches on, and we watched the seconds flit by.
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Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.
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No matter what happens, there is always the business of the world to attend to.
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It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.
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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
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Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.
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Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
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When a girl holds a rose up to you, you run better, let me tell you.
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(The raindrops) played across the coast all through the night, until the soft new day shrugged itself awake, tried on amethyst and lavender for a while, and finally decided on pale yellow.
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