Author Archives: Mary Beth Frezon

Re The Quote Box

I took a moment to add a new quote this morning and then geeked out, GREP’d the text file to mush it into tab-delimited stuff and crammed it into a little database. Whew. This allowed me to easily fix some problems that pop up over there in the side bar from time to time. It also reveals that there were only a couple duplicates and without those the quote box stands holding 1717 quotes.

I think I’ll work at gathering some more! Continue reading →

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From the quote box and Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” – W. B. Yeats Continue reading →

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Happy World Poetry Day (and more)

And finally, in between all the verse I suppose I should do a bit more towards trying to get this week’s painting assignment to look like something I meant. Continue reading →

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stolen phrases

space between letters •
useful layer of subtext •
breath between the words Continue reading →

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To start off World Poetry Day

the raven quoted, •
deeply the night is coated, •
dreaded: nevermore Continue reading →

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