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November 21, 2007
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Allen Taylor added a quote:
"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-Sherlock Holmes"
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Allen Taylor added a quote:
"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
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Allen Taylor read and liked a piece of writing titled "mussels" by Jodi Lu

"ode to sushi mussels:

little jigglers of poppy tickle
whispies of the frantic gush of barely stiff and barely true and
barely there at all
but all wrong and fringed-dirty,"   ...read more »
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Allen Taylor joined the Dead Poets Society and new poetry groups.
October 30, 2007
Waiting for Godot: A... Allen Taylor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (Paperback)
by Samuel Beckett
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didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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recommended for: Everyone

Allen Taylor Allen said: "Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett is one of my favorite plays of all time. This two-act play features two men waiting for someone they've never met and can't be sure even exists. He never comes, but their passions, discussions, and discoveries - o...more "
No Exit and Three Ot... Allen Taylor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
No Exit and Three Other Plays (Paperback)
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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recommended for: Everyone

Allen Taylor Allen said: "Awesome play. Jean Paul Sartre is more existentialist than Camus and more human too. No Exit is a play about three equally boorish people in hell. They can't get along, but they are forced to live with each. And you'll love the furniture. A must read...more "
Animal Farm Allen Taylor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
Animal Farm (Paperback)
by George Orwell
my rating:
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
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recommended for: Everyone

Allen Taylor Allen said: "I have a hard time choosing which is the better novel - 1984 or Animal Farm. This novel by George Orwell uses animals on a farm to tell a story of political bullying and tyranny. One of the most quoted lines in literature, "We are all equal; som...more "
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Oscar Wilde
"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


Arthur Conan Doyle
"Elementary, my dear Watson.
-Sherlock Holmes"
Arthur Conan Doyle


233 ¡ POETRY ! — 2350 members — last activity 1 hour, 3 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to g...more

195 A Place for Poets — 296 members — last activity 30 days ago, 11:17AM
This group is for those who believe in the cross-cultural necessity and permanence of poetry. Share and discuss your favourite poets and the writing p...more
Groups_nophoto-25x33 new poetry — 18 members — last activity 06/19/2008 01:43PM
a group for thems that live off the vapors of freshly minted verse ... poets with an eye on the past (ancient or not) and a proclivity for the experim...more
1137 Dead Poets Society — 13 members — last activity 07/09/2008 11:07PM
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