April 2012
167 posts
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“Were we now to fall
to our stubborn knees
and sink to rest, my
self sunk in...”
– Robert Creeley, “The Mechanic”
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“The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse
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“I’ve been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was...”
– Robert Penn Warren, National Observer March 12, 1977
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“Sometimes you linger days
upon a word,
a single, uncontaminated drop
of...”
– John Burnside, from “Like me, you sometimes waken” in Common Knowledge (with thanks to A Poet Reflects)
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“With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining. That is the...”
– John Steinbeck, Burning Bright
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“In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A...”
– Robert Penn Warren, from “True Love”
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“You were covered with poems
your whole body was writing
remember
recover the...”
– Octavio Paz, from “The Balcony” (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
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“How sad, not knowing how to bloom!”
– Fernando Pessoa, from “XXXVI” found in Poems of Fernando Pessoa (trans. Edwin Honig and Susan M. Brown)
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“April
In the pastel blur
of the garden,
the cherry
and redbud
shake rain...”
– Linda Pastan, from “The Months”
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“The dead absorb us more than the living, because we always think there’s still...”
– Anna Kamienska, from “Industrious Amazement: A Notebook” (translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh)
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“Today life opened inside me like an egg…”
– Anne Sexton, from “Live”
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“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but...”
– George Eliot, “Janet’s Repentance” from Scenes of Clerical Life (with thanks to colourthysoul)
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Anonymous asked: I would be very selfish not to thank you for your gathering here, your spirit, your vision, and you well-being. Thank you for sharing, creating, and inspiring!
March 2012
103 posts
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“(at St. Mary’s)
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our...”
– Lucille Clifton, “blessing the boats”
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“Yellow telephones
in a row in the garden
are ringing,
shrill with light.
...”
– Mary Swenson, “Daffodils” 