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Quotes from what I’m reading…I find myself collecting my favorite quotes, poems and art for no real reason, so I’m putting them here now.
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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”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
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 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.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Talk to me like the rain
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.

~ Tennessee Williams
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“…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”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
Poem Sometimes everything seems so oh, I don't know.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“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
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“Sunshine is something
I hear of
on late-night news.
A pathetic mortal vampire
since you revoked
your invitation.”
-S.L. Robinson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #dreamsofdecadence #slrobinson
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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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”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #frankenstein #maryshelley
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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“No Kings” was a popular topic for Poems While You Wait at the Art Institute today
October 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
namehereok.bsky.social
“I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.”
-Ha Jin

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #hajin
October 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“…brushing
everything as she passes
with her slow hands
and soft lips —“
-Mary Oliver

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #maryoliver
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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The Books I Have Not Read, by Shel Silverstein
October 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Good morning. Don't panic.
October 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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“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”

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tolkien
September 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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
The tall red mountains of Zion national Park
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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“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
September 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“ ‘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”

#quotes #tolkien #thehobbit #lotr #booksky #whatimreading
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“We lived at the end of an empire.”
-Jim Moore

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #jimmoore
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.”
-Jennifer Michael Hecht

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #jennifermichaelhecht
September 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM