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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
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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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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.
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Joy in what we do is not an added feature it is a sign of deep health.
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What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.
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