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#1

“I believe the world only gives us what we seek to find.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

tags: beauty, destiny, humanity, life

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#2

“In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: literature, on-poetry, poet, r-m-engelhardt, writer, writing-life

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#3

“Write from truth, write from self.

Writing theory or conceptual writing may be

A way to create new forms or styles but in the end?

The Words Must Be Your Own.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: conceptual-writing, novels-books, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, writing

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#4

“Be Visionary ...”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: albany, be-visionary, ny, poetry, qoutes-on-writing, r-m-engelhardt, vision, writing-life

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#5

“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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#6

“Pay attention, and use your imagination.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, Versus : Poems By R.M. Engelhardt 2009

tags: literature, on-writing, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, writing-life

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#7

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: books, on-writing-poetry, poetry, quotes, r-m-engelhardt, writing

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#8

“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. … All those things.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

tags: inspiration, on-writing, poet, poetry, quotes, r-m-engelhardt, slam, times-union

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#9

“Remember The Poem ...”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: 21st-century, albany-poets, books, lost-art-of-poetry, on-modern-writing, on-writing, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, writing

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#10

“For me the poem and the poetry open mic isn’t about competition and it never will be. Honestly? It's wrong. The open mic is about 1 poet, one fellow human being up on a stage or behind a podium sharing their work regardless of what form or style they bring to it. In other words? The guy with the low slam score is more than likely a far better poet-writer than the guy who actually won. But who are you? I ? Or really anyone else to judge them? The Poetry Slam has become an overgrown, over used monopoly on American literature and poetry and is now over utilized by the academic & public school establishments. And over the years has sadly become the "McDonalds Of Poetry". We can only hope that the same old stale atmosphere of it all eventually becomes or evolves into something new that translates to and from the written page and that gives new poets with different styles & authentic voices a chance to share their work too.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: american-literature, on-writing, open-mics, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, slam, slam-poetry

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#11

“I saw our future together compressed into a moment; our faces changing, desire having to cope and reinvent itself at each new stratum of familiarity; I saw the gradual dissolution of mutual mystery and romance, its succession by friendship and a sort of tranquil and supernatural loyalty; I felt - with great lightness of being - the bearability of the idea of death, if the life preceding it was bloodily commingled (in children) with hers. A humble little truth: build a truly good life and it will reward you with mastery of the fear of death. It was simple. Having committed to the building of a marriage and family, all sorts of truths came forward and offered themselves.”
― Glen Duncan

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#12

“The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

tags: critics, literature, on-writing, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, reading-readers-writers

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#13

“The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humor, politics

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#14

“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#15

“Intent and dreaming is nice but its not, will never be enough. If you want something bad enough in life then you must fight for it or go after it. Life doesn't just come to you.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems Of R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006

tags: dreams, life, quotes, r-m-engelhardt, work, writing

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#16

“A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee.

These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz Poems R.M. Engelhardt

tags: books, cigarettes, coffee, life, r-m-engelhardt

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#17

“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading

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#18

“If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with the last breath~ love, words fading and floating off into the abyss that is space whilst our everyday lives or days more important than normal become just a mere whisper in only a few short syllables through which we convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: haiku, life, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, sonnets, truth

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#19

“Sometimes it’s great, and sometimes it’s shit.

These are the things all the great philosophers

just won’t tell you flat out about life.

You keep moving, keep living, keep breathing

And you keep writing-creating because that’s what you do

And that’s who you are. There are no magical voices to guide

You except your own. Make it count.

~ R.M. ENGELHARDT”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz Poems R.M. Engelhardt

tags: life, poet, poetry, quotes-on-life, quotes-on-writing, r-m-engelhardt, writing

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#20

“What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz Poems R.M. Engelhardt

tags: authors, creative-writing, hell, literature, on-writing, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, writers-block

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#21

“Once you read a book it becomes a part of you forever”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: books, reading

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#22

“Utopia lies at the horizon.
When I draw nearer by two steps,
it retreats two steps.
If I proceed ten steps forward, it
swiftly slips ten steps ahead.
No matter how far I go, I can never reach it.
What, then, is the purpose of utopia?
It is to cause us to advance.”
― Eduardo Galeano

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#23

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
― John Wayne "The Shootist"

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#24

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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#25

“I used to be a poet.
My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.
Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.

Now I am old...
drunk on wine and candle fumes.
Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air
so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.
I used to be a poet
and my words were gold.”
― Roman Payne

tags: ageing, aging, ambition, beautiful-life, candles, exchange, exchanging, gold, grief, indian, jade, lament, loneliness, lonliness, marketplaces, minor-poem, minor-poetry, money, moths, old-man, old-poet, poetics, poetry, psalms, roman-payne, saffron

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#26

“Books measure time in both moments and years.

We all grow old but the stories never will.”
― R.M. Engelhardt

tags: books, inspirationalpiration, poetry, stories, writing

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#27

“Everything is still everything.

The Poem Remains.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

tags: literature, poem-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes

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#28

“We write because the blank piece of paper and the pen are there. We write because this is our addiction and we are proud of it. Our habit, our drug, our crutch. Whatever you wish to call it. We write because since an early age we felt it deep in our souls and in our bones. The poem must be written, the story must be told and the new myths and Gods are waiting for you to bring them forth from out of the darkness and to bring them into the light of being. You are a creator, so create. You are the writer. So write.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

tags: inspiration, poetry, r-m-engelhardt, writers, writing

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#29

“I'm running out of things to say.
I've stopped stealing pages out of poetry books, but last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you and could only find rain
and more rain
and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, an orchestra.”
― Shinji Moon, The Anatomy of Being

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#30

“I can quote a million people but in the end it only comes down to one thing

"Faith”
― R.M. Engelhardt (TALON), The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

tags: engelhardt, faith, life, meaning, poetry, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, r-m, r-m-engelhardt

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