"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

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Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

— Maya Angelou