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Wed 7 Feb 2018

Amazing

Posted by PJ under nature, poetry, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Almost every haiku says the same thing: it’s amazing to be alive here.”

—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, No. 159, Fall 2001

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 19 Oct 2017

Dove guitar

Posted by PJ under art, poetry, quote of the day, symbols
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Random quote of the day:

“The dove signifies the dove and the guitar signifies a musical instrument called the guitar.

—Pablo Neruda, The Paris Review, Issue 51, Spring 1971

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Wed 28 Jun 2017

Poet head

Posted by PJ under movies, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

—Orson Welles, “Ribbon of Dreams,” International Film Annual, No. 2, 1958

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Mon 22 May 2017

Everything

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, words
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Random quote of the day:

“When I first read the dictionary, I thought it was a long poem about everything.”

—Steven Wright, I Have A Pony

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Thu 11 May 2017

Discovery

Posted by PJ under discoveries, poetry, quote of the day, self-knowledge
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Random quote of the day:

“I don’t think people read poetry because they’re interested in the poet. I think they read poetry because they’re interested in themselves….I read poetry to discover things about myself…”

—Billy Collins, interview, Powell’s Book Blog, October 10, 2006

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Mon 20 Mar 2017

Fresh off the presses, so please keep that in mind

Posted by PJ under my poetry, poetry, spring
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Oh

Spring, oh spring, you break my heart
with the gaudy riot you splash against my eyes,
with the sweet winds and misting torrents,
you crack my heart wide open, thrusting life
where I have carefully kept it out.

Oh spring, oh spring, how can I deny you
when all around the yellow and red burn,
burn and burst and foment and fly?
Oh spring.
Oh.

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Thu 2 Mar 2017

Alive

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“I promise to make you so alive that
the fall of dust on furniture will deafen you…”

—Nina Cassian, “Ordeal” (tr. Michael Impey and Brian Swann)

 

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Mon 20 Feb 2017

Imaginary gardens

Posted by PJ under imagination, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“[Poetry is] imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

—Marianne Moore, “Poetry”

 

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Tue 3 Jan 2017

Our real work

Posted by PJ under journeys, letting go, poetry, the path, work
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Random quote of the day:

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

—Wendell Berry, “The Real Work”

 

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Mon 5 Dec 2016

Comet

Posted by PJ under poetry, quote of the day, stars
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Random quote of the day:

“The revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies—and as mysterious.”

—James Thurber, “Thinking Ourselves Into Trouble”

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