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“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks.
I remember the line from that poem now.
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
― Little Beauties
I remember the line from that poem now.
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
― Little Beauties
“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”
― Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
― Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
“. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them.”
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“Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.”
― What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
― What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”
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Honest Publishing is a British independent book publisher of both fiction and non-fiction. Founded by three friends in 2010, the company strives to pu ...more
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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
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