February 2013
3 posts
“Getting lost should be seen as a sweet chance to be found. Remember, you belong...”
– Derrick C. Brown
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
October 2012
1 post
"Late Echo," by John Ashbery →
Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different. Beehives and ants have to…
September 2012
4 posts
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
Sharing Poetry: Robert Graves, "Counting the... →
sharingpoetry:
You, love, and I,
(He whispers) you and I,
And if no more than only you and I
What care you or I?
Counting the beats,
Counting the slow heart beats,
The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats,
Wakeful they lie.
Cloudless day,
Night, and a cloudless day,
Yet the…
August 2012
1 post
May 2012
4 posts
“Language can’t math me. I experience exponentially…Do not fear what...”
– Suheir Hammad
“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to...”
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
somewhere i have never travelled
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your...
April 2012
3 posts
January 2012
2 posts
November 2011
1 post
“Men of today want the poem to be in the image of their lives, composed of such...”
– Rene Char
October 2011
6 posts
“But here in the Advent-darkened room
…we’ll return to Doom
The...”
– Patrick Kavanagh
“I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to...”
– Martha Graham
“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
– Maya Angelou
“Poetry requires unflagging intransigence. It demands that I extract a seamless...”
– Sophia De Mello Breyner
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September 2011
14 posts
“It is not easy … to wait. Waiting is what the hunter does, and the poet and the...”
– Cary Tennis
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“Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the...”
– Raymond Carver
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“And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be...”
– Albert Camus
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;...”
– Confucius
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly
what is essential is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Michael Ondaatje, "The Time Around Scars" →
Michael Ondaatje, “The Time Around Scars”
A girl whom I’ve not spoken to or shared coffee with for several years writes of an old scar. On her wrist it sleeps, smooth and white, the size of a leech. I gave it to her brandishing a new Italian penknife. Look, I said turning, and blood spat onto her shirt. My wife has scars like spread raindrops on knees and ankles, she talks of broken greenhouse...
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“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend...”
– Dale Carnegie
August 2011
22 posts
“Tiny, fast-moving black ants disperse and swirl because the wind has demolished...”
– Kalisha Buckhanon
“The unattached, the unwanted, the unloved grow to give love as lushly as anyone...”
– Vanessa Diffenbaugh
“We love in the same way we learn to love.”
– PerformBelieveRepeat Blog
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...”
– James Baldwin
“Nothing in this world is without terrible barriers-
Except love, but only when...”
– Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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