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...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows... ↗


— John Geddes


#boughs #food #nature #poetry #sparrows

I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love ↗


— Jane Austen


#poetry #food

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ↗


— Esther Dyson


#idolatry #internet #technology #internet

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗


— Franklin D. Roosevelt


#trial-and-error #trying #perseverance

The Dandy is the highest form of existence attainable by the human form. His life is exclusively dedicated to dressing exquisitely, parading about the fashionable boroughs of splendid cities and and holding forth at his club, where he dispenses witticism as readily as the vulgaroisie utters its banal platitudes. The only species of 'work' this singular Chap might engage in would consist of discussing buttonhole stitching with his tailor and performing his ablutions until the morning has been well aired enough for him to step into it. ↗


— Gustav Temple and Vic Darkwood


#britain #chap #chappism #chaps #civility

Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love. ↗


— Dave Preston


#love #poetry #life

...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ... ↗


— John Geddes


#love #memory #poetry-quotes #life

Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your house now hold in the dusty dry fists of their roots green knives and forks as if waiting for dinner, as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that. Were it not for the way you taught me to look at the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever. ↗


— Ted Kooser


#mothers-and-daughters #nature #poetry #life

Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce life, with all its pain, horror, suffering, and ecstasy, to a unified tonality of boredom and complaint. By necessity poetry is therefore on the side of being and against nothingness. ↗


— Czesław Miłosz


#life #nothingness #poetry #life

poems are small moments of enlightenment ↗


— Natalie Goldberg


#poet #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #writing






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