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Poems are never finished - just abandoned ↗

— Paul Valéry

#writing #poem

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, ‘Is it good, friend?’ ‘It is bitter — bitter,’ he answered, ‘But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#heart #poetry #poem

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#proofreading #poem

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#carroll #jabberwock #jabberwocky #lewis #wonderland

l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li ne ss ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poem #poem

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#violence

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children ↗

— Chief Seattle

#environment #environment

See, this was his kind of decorating. An active mind don't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers ↗

— J.R. Ward

#environment

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#environment

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#charm #fashion #fashion