“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”

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“O, teach me how I should forget to think!”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

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Talk to me like the rain
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.

~ Tennessee Williams

Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019

“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.”
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”

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“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”

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“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost

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Poem Sometimes everything seems so oh, I don't know.

"Poem" by Joe Brainard.

“She had gotten the better of herself, and asked for none of the things that belonged to this world.”
-The Phantom Carriage, 1921, dir. Victor
Sjöström

#quotes #poetry #cinema #whatimwatching #victorsjöström

“Sunshine is something
I hear of
on late-night news.
A pathetic mortal vampire
since you revoked
your invitation.”
-S.L. Robinson

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“Alas! I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.”
-Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

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“No Kings” was a popular topic for Poems While You Wait at the Art Institute today

“I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.”
-Ha Jin

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #hajin

“…brushing
everything as she passes
with her slow hands
and soft lips —“
-Mary Oliver

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The Books I Have Not Read, by Shel Silverstein

Good morning. Don't panic.

“The stars are far brighter
Than gems without measure,
The moon is far whiter
Than silver in treasure;
The fire is more shining
On hearth in the gloaming
Than gold won by mining,
So why go a-roaming?”
-J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

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The tall red mountains of Zion national Park

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur

Pic of the day

#photography

“I cannot see her tonight.
I have to give her up.
So I will eat fugu.”
-Yosa Buson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #haiku
#booksky #whatimreading #buson

“ ‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got…”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit”

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“We lived at the end of an empire.”
-Jim Moore

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“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.”
-Jennifer Michael Hecht

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“your life is not a crime”
-Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social

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“Death calls to us all, my friend- it is a potent lure. We search for answers, and find none, and begin to consider the void…”
-FL4K, Borderlands 3

#quotes #whatimplaying #borderlands #borderlands3

Fascism is the small mind's fear of the myriad beauties of the world.