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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
― Farrah Gray

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“Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.”
― James Thurber

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“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”
― Farrah Gray

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隆 POETRY ! — 22494 members — last activity Apr 14, 2025 05:23PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) 欧宝娱乐 honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg 鈥淕od has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.鈥� 鈥擜nne Sexton On Clouds 鈥� 鈥溾€hat primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about鈥︹€� 鈥擸evgeny Zamyatin 鈥淚f the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn鈥檛 wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.鈥� 鈥擠onald Hall 鈥淧oetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation鈥檚 tears in shoulder blades.鈥� 鈥擝oris Pasternak 鈥淲anted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.鈥� 鈥擟harles Simic 鈥淟anguage is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.鈥� 鈥擥ustave Flaubert 鈥淧oetry is not an expression of the party line. It鈥檚 that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that鈥檚 what the poet does.鈥� 鈥擜llen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women鈥檚 National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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Welcome to Blogger Lift, the largest community of Bloggers on 欧宝娱乐. Want a little lift for your blog? You have come to the right place. Meet Blo ...more

Afro Book Club — 784 members — last activity Jun 26, 2021 05:13AM
An international reading club appreciating books by authors of African descent in the continent and in the diaspora.

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We offer love, compassion & kindness to create a better world. The moderator proposes books by & about people who have done this profoundly...Martin L ...more

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