More to be a human being with
Gary D. Schmidt
You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.
art forget thing
art human humanity artists books
There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.
power art reason made
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
mind art ideas books
Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.
friendship
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
funny
It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.
identity
You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two ways in a wood? So what? Who cares if it made all that big a difference? What difference? And why should I have to guess what the difference is? Isn't that what he's supposed to say?Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
poetry
I almost cried. But I didn't, because if you're in seventh grade and you cry while wearing a blue floral cape and yellow tights with white feathers on the butt, you just have to curl up and die somewhere in a dark alley.
truth
No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.
war vietnam
We carry our childhood with us.
memory childhood
Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.
kiss first-love
A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.''Strange stuff''Thou jesting monkey thou''Apes with foreheads villainous low''Pied ninny''Blind mole..' -The Caliban Curses
curses shakespeare
Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.
librarians
The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.
snow
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