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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Doesn
Breaking
Around
Fish
Anything
Fishes
Mean
Mouths
Like
Surface
Air
Meet
Courage
Awe

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There are many ways that we grow, but there are two major ways: We shed what no longer works, or we're broken open. If we're unwilling to shed, then we will be broken open. Through shedding, we are worn down, just as nature is eroded to its beauty. I think that through suffering, human beings are eroded to our beauty.
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When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.
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