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”To Kill A Mockingbird”, Harper Lee, Literary Lines

Harper Lee (Photo: Polaris Eyevine)

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

~ Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird ~

Literary Lines ~ National Poetry Month Edition

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“There Will Come Soft Rain”, Literary Lines, National Poetry Month, Sara Teasdale

There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

~ Sara Teasdale, There Will Come Soft Rain ~

Literary Lines ~ National Poetry Month Edition

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”Kindness”, Literary Lines, Naomi Shihab Nye, National Poetry Month

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”Little Women”, Literary Lines, Louisa May Alcott, Women's History Month

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott, Little Women ~

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“The Prophets”, Black History Month, Literary Lines, Robert Jones Jr.

There are no lines. For everything is a circle, turning back on itself endlessly. This is not to make you dizzy, but to give you the chance to get it right the next time.

~ Robert Jones, Jr., The Prophets (2021) ~

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Edith Lovejoy Pierce, Literary Lines, New Year’s Day

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce ~

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Chris Van Allsburg, Literary Lines, The Polar Express

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.

~ Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express ~

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“Christmas Gift Suggestions”, Literary Lines, Oren Arnold

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David Wong, Literary Lines, This Book Is Full of Spiders

What humans want most of all is to be right. Even if we’re being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner, ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others, and made to look foolish.

~ David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders ~ 

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Danse Macabre, Literary Lines, Stephen King

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness to another, remembering little of the one, and knowing nothing of the other.

~ Stephen King, Danse Macabre ~