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I particularly needed to hear this this week! “As velvet cannot hone the blade” -- so beautiful! Love this one

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Thank you Ariana! I'm so glad you picked up on that line because reading that line was the whole inspiration behind writing this poem.

I read some excerpts from John D Rockefeller's letters to his son, and this was his line : "The sharp razor is definitely not sharpened on gorgeous velvet"

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2192931#:~:text=The%20sharp%20razor%20is%20definitely%20not%20sharpened%20on%20gorgeous%20velvet

So cool how one line can birth an entire poem around it!

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