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“Poem after poem after poem is the heartbeat of the human race.”

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Author:Laura Treacy Bentley

“Where does it lead, this rockrose path?”

Choices Decisions Ireland

Book:The Silver Tattoo

Source: The Silver Tattoo

“I have always said that a picture book is a palace for a poem. I still believe that.”

Poem Picture Book Palace

Book:Sir Grace and the Big Blizzard

Source: Sir Grace and the Big Blizzard

“Three is a sacred number. Some say it represents the trinity or three layers of the soul.”

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Book:The Silver Tattoo

Source: The Silver Tattoo

“Marooned by all but one of his new disciples, the busker complete his act unfazed. The perfumed air seems to be replaced by a faint electrical smell like ozone after a lightning strike. When the man becomes a sterling tableau in the setting sun, Leah stares into his unblinking moonstone eye.”

Ireland Dublin Busker

Book:The Silver Tattoo

Source: The Silver Tattoo

“In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office.”

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Book:The Silver Tattoo

Source: The Silver Tattoo