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NaPoWriMo, Day Ten

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Tough day to find that little shred of something to start with. Luckily I got this amazing little book in a pile of “Take These! Free!” books at the library last week – the suede (aka fuzzy cover) edition of … Continue reading →

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Proactive vs Reactive

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt

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From William Carlos Williams

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

Footnote 151.22 re Sappho (From William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Pinsky) This is a translation of Sappho’s Fragment 71. When it was published in Poems in Folio (1957), Williams included this note: I am 73 years old. … Continue reading →

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From Vincent, via The Quote Box

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, ‘He feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’ — Vincent van Gogh Continue reading →

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From the Quote Box

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Mary Beth Frezon

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world. — Inscription from a church in Sussex, England, 1730

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