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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Hear
Grows
Feel
Direction
Feels
Dare
Like
Sun
Listening
Grow

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All the buried seeds crack open in the dark the instant they surrender to a process they can't see.
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My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire, and I find myself in the presence of love. This has always been so.
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