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There are three parts to any great work: the beginning again; the muddle; and the beginning again.

:- Doug.

Start a conversation by looking to see—draw the inside corner of the other’s eye for one minute without looking at the page and with one continuous line. Let us to get to know and see our conversation partner.

:- Doug.

Prefer courage to hope.

:- Doug.

Say someone you love is seriously ill and people’s ears perk up, they lean toward you. We are made of compassion.

:- Doug.

What’s the higher and better for which humanity might reach?

:- Doug.

What does poetry mean to me? Beauty, wonder, conversation, spirit, complexity, making, creating, inventing, beyond words.

:- Doug.

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The Work is to increase the proportion of poetry in the world. Won’t you join me? What does poetry mean to you?

:- Doug.

I want to make poetry—make making—make beauty out of the human.

:- Doug.

Where does the urge to live lead? Toward what does the arc of human bend?

:- Doug.

If you want your children to do better than you, that spells different from what you have done.

:- Doug.

I want people to be agents, actors, doers in their own lives, in humanity, in life! Humanity is not done growing up; life is not done. I can help a little.

It will take thinking. It will take action. From each of us, and together. It is time to move while we yet can think and do. What do you do human that could be done wonderfully? Together?

:- Doug.

I am inviting people—you!—to do human. Wonderfully.

:- Doug.

I don’t intend to save the world. Only humans.

:- Doug.

All embraces conversation. Or maybe conversation embraces all.

:- Doug.