#293
“A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.”
—Allen Grossman (via Stone Circle Review)
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
#proverb #aphorism #poetry
10.07.2025 09:02 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#292
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
—James Baldwin (via M. Kabir)
@mkabir.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #quotes
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02.03.2025 03:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#291
"If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold."
—Rumi (via Zeeshan Jaanam)
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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21.02.2025 20:38 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#290
"Laughing together is deeply sexy."
—Chen Chen
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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18.02.2025 07:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#289
“To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home.”
― Theodor W. Adorno (via Zeeshan Jaanam)
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proberbs #quotes
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17.02.2025 02:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#288
"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart."
—Louise Erdrich (via Chen Chen)
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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16.02.2025 21:22 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#287
"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."
—Alice Walker (via Zeeshan Jaanam)
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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12.02.2025 19:56 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#286
"Poverty is a failure of society, not an individual."
—Jess Scarane (via Mandi Rose)
@mandipom.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs
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11.02.2025 20:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#285
"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."
—Jonas Mekas (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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09.02.2025 18:22 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#284
“What has no shadow has no strength to live.”
―Czeslaw Milosz (via Jerusha J.)
@respectabledolphin.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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09.02.2025 07:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#283
"Let us who live try."
—Charles Olson (via Tom Snarsky)
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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29.01.2025 20:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#282
“Poetry is like gossiping about god and praying to a pine tree.”
—Chen Chen
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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24.01.2025 00:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#281
“Be kinder to yourself.”
—Adrienne Rich (via Tom Snarsky)
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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24.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#280
"Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness—it's huge, it is profound."
—David Lynch R.I.P.
#aphorisms #proverbs #quotes
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17.01.2025 02:16 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#279
"Goodnight, Empire—Goodnight, white supremacy—Your veins are dangling from my teeth."
—Bhanu Kapil (via Chen Chen)
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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14.01.2025 04:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#278
"You may enthrone your heart in the petals of a rosebud, or form with it the nucleus of a snowball—inevitably both will perish."
—Louise Stedman Bostick (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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14.01.2025 04:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#277
"Find a field of lilacs—let this be the healing and if not, let it be."
—Danez Smith (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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14.01.2025 04:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#276
“Love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, & the sickness & the dying with our spirits intact—it is love that allows us to survive whole.”
—bell hooks (via Tash)
@tashmahal.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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14.01.2025 04:30 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
#275
"Dearest, I beg of you, sleep properly and go for walks."
—Franz Kafka (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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08.01.2025 01:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#274
"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers."
—James Baldwin (via Chen Chen)
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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07.01.2025 02:30 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#273
"Walk alone in the woods—lie in the meadows—"
—Franz Kafka (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #quotes
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04.01.2025 21:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#272
"Useful as it is under everyday circumstances to say that the world exists "out there" independent of us, that view can no longer be upheld."
—John Archibald Wheeler (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #physics
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04.01.2025 09:51 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#271
"All poetic language must be soaked in the oil of human feeling."
—Henri Cole (via Chen Chen)
@chenchenwrites.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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01.01.2025 10:59 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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31.12.2024 08:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#270
“Speak to yourself like someone you love deeply & unconditionally.”
—Gem Stone
@areflectivegem.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #quotes
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31.12.2024 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#269
"If poetry were not important, no governments would kill poets."
—Zeeshan Jaanam
@zeeshanpathan.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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30.12.2024 22:08 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
#268
“May light sweeten in your lungs—may your tongue shine.”
—William Pitt Root (via Peege)
@bloodsigns.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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26.12.2024 20:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#267
“When we touch, forests enter our bodies.”
—Bill Manhire
@pacificraft.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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26.12.2024 19:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#266
“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
—Loren Eiseley (via Forgotten Poets)
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #magic
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26.12.2024 19:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#265
“Moonlight will heal your worries.”
—Eve Castle
@evecastle.bsky.social
#aphorisms #proverbs #poetry
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26.12.2024 00:32 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
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I’m the perfect verse over a tight beat & a magic not meant for everyone’s comprehension.
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Wrote YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE (Atria Books, 2023). Writing other stuff. Public library worker. Abortion clinic angel, abortion fund board. Queer. t1d. Pure of heart, dumb of ass.
Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Open for submissions. Sharing poems that find a seam and take root. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. Member CLMP. https://stonecirclereview.com/
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prone to write impromptu literature/poetry from time to time. I sign them — ER
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Sadly, the future isn’t what it once was.
Author of genealogy mysteries, Colonial American supernatural, and true crime. RN. Aspiring to create entertaining stories as well as give voice to those who can no longer speak for themselves.
Vicissitude of a lifelong
individuation process
Mysterium-tremendum-fascinans
Nympholeptic Numinous Lilith
http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/Otto.htm
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Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
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