I simply want to celebrate ...

I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.
 Kay Ryan

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The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.
 Kay Ryan
The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.
 Kay Ryan
Action creates/a taste/for itself.
 Kay Ryan