Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

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Poems must become the marrow in your bones, but they must also be the world's songs. They must be the songs you sing to yourself and songs you sing to others. Then they can be the songs to which you return again and again.

Source: White Oleander

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