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Every day – From the quote box
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 – 1882
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What Does Poetry Do? From the quote box
What does poetry do? Nothing and everything, like air, water, soil, like birds, fish, trees, like love, spirit, our daily words … It lives with us, in and outside us, everywhere, all the time, and yet, we are too often oblivious of this gift. It’s a poet’s job to bring this gift out and back, this gift that makes us human again. – Wang Ping (writing about Ghassan Zaqtan, translated by Fady Joudah) Continue reading
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt Continue reading
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From the Quote Box
The artist is the only person able to encounter technology with impunity, because he is an expert aware of the changes in sense perception. – Marshall McLuhan Continue reading
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Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own. – Adam Lindsay Gordon Continue reading
