Two Somewhat Different Epigrams

Oh, God of dust and rainbows, help us see.
That without dust the rainbow would not be.

~ Langston Hughes from "Two Somewhat Different Epigrams" in THE POEMS: 1951-1967

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I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day,
with the consequence
of love.

~ David Whyte