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“—a place where thought can take its shape as quietly in the mind as water in a pitcher...”

Book:Openings: Poems

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Openings: Poems

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Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more

“I dreamed in a dream of a city where all the men were like brothers, O I saw them tenderly love each other - I often saw them, in numbers, walking hand in hand; I dreamed that was a city of robust friends - Nothing was greater there than manly love - it led the rest, It was seen every hour in the actions of the men of that city, and in all their looks and words.-”

American Poetry Gay Love Live Oak With Moss

Author:Walt Witman

“THE AMPUTATED HEART BEATS HARDER”

Art Poetry Poetry Quotes American Poetry

Book:I'm the Man Who Loves You

Source: I'm the Man Who Loves You

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

Poetry Poem Poetry Quotes American Poetry

Author:Amy King

“I rinse out sugar and mint taste home on your lips before it disappears.”

Love Fleeting Moments Home Away From Home Exile And Emigration

Book:The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

Source: The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

“There was a crash from the direction of the kitchen, although it really was more of a crashendo - the long drawn out clatter that begins when a pile of plates begins to slip, continues when someone tries to grab at them, develops a desperate counter-theme when the person realises they don't have three hands, and ends with the roinroinroin of the one miraculously intact plate spinning round and round on the floor.”

Humour Diskworld

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Here in my dreams, everything is always a little softer the way the light is just before dawn ; shy and delicate. Dear beloved, here there will always be a gentle landing beneath you, here you can continue to fall”

Metaphorically

Author:Paige Harrington

“When one focuses on metaphor as product, problems surface as to whether a metaphor should be considered as a testable model of reality or taken literally when used poetically. On the other hand, focusing on the metaphor as process shows how metaphorising is hierarchical in nature, from the cognitive levels of subliminally sensate to conceptual to linguistic expression.”

Metaphorically

Book:The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition

Source: The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition

“Danke sinfpd gute Gedanken.”

Thank You Danke

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“My body is in a state of perpetual contradiction, alive with anticipation and simultaneously dead of all other emotion.”

Survive Ya Fiction Alex Morel Paul Hart Electric Monkey Jane Solis

Book:Survive

Source: Survive

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