The real thing creates its own poetry.
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Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.Anzia Yezierska
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
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