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Quote for Today: Freddie Mercury
Creative Commons Licensed Image via Carl Lender on Fotopedia “Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to...
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Quote for Today: Everett Ruess
CC Licensed Image by eleephotography on Flickr Alone I will follow the dark trail, black void on one side and unattainable heights on the other, darkness before and behind me, darkness that pulses and...
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In Memoriam: Taffety Punk’s Interpretation of Sylvia Plath’s Tulips
CCLI by art schoolgirl27 on Flickr Fifty years ago today, a brilliant young poet sealed her kitchen off from her sleeping children with towels, placed her head in the oven and turned on the gas. Unable...
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Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all,...
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Quote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives...
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Quote for Today: Tim Burton
The Girl With Many Eyes © mandarinmoon with CCLicense One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed...
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Quote for Today: Lorine Niedecker
© Stuart Richards with CCLicense I rose from marsh mud, algae, equisetum, willows, sweet green, noisy birds and frogs to see her wed in the rich rich silence of the church, the little white slave-girl...
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Quote for Today: Pablo Neruda
© luna melancholy with CCLicense At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth...
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Quote for Today: F. Sionil José
Cloud Gate by Anish KapoorCC Licensed Image © sicklittlemonkey There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are...
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Quote for Today: Isadora Duncan
CC Licensed Image © David Campbell Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps… The Dance is love, it...
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Voice, Language and Belonging: Renee Liang’s Chinglish
© Mike Baird with CCLicense Children of immigrants often feel as if they belong nowhere, that no one comprehends their unique voice. The language and customs of their parents homeland may be confining,...
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Quote for Today: Peter Ackroyd
© Chris Vreeland with CCLicense No poet is ever completely lost. He has the secret of his childhood safe with him, like some secret cave in which he can kneel. And, when we read his poetry, we can join...
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Quote for Today: Edward Abbey
Temple of Transition, Burning Man 2011© Michael Holden with CCLicense I’d like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human...
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Quote for Today: Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm who know the storm. ―Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun Photo: Sun and storm clouds in a lily pond © Chad K with CCLicense
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Quote for Today: Shel Silverstein
My Beloved Ghost, passing by© Kristaps B. with CCLicense Masks She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by-...
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A Darker Shade of Blue: Andrea Gibson’s Blue Blanket
© Generation Progress with CCLicense Andrea Gibson is a poet, activist and one of the most powerful poetry performers of today. Her impassioned recitation and stirring fearlessness in subject matter...
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Quote for Today: Ralph Hodgson
Sad Memories of ChildhoodMemorial for Starved ChildrenKiev, Ukraine© Jennifer Boyer with CCLicense Stupidity Street I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For the people to eat. I...
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Quote for Today: George MacDonald
© Franca Leyendecker with CCLicense Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? — not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining...
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Quote for Today: Shauna Niequist
Fish Magic, Paul Klee, 1925 I know that life is busy and hard and that there’s crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job and khaki pants and a haircut. But don’t. Please don’t. Please...
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Quote for Today: T.S. Eliot
Poetry of Silence© soulofautumn87 with CCLicense Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of...
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