# Poetry Inspiration

#### A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou&#x20;

* [Brain Pickings by:  ](https://www.brainpickings.org/)[Maria Popova](https://www.brainpickings.org/about/)

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> We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
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> Whose hands can strike with such abandon
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> That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
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> Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness
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> That the haughty neck is happy to bow
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> And the proud back is glad to bend
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> Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
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> We learn that we are neither devils nor divines
