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“sailing paper boats on lily ponds... a city drenched, like a watercolor on an artist’s wall...”
― Cross-Stitched Words
― Cross-Stitched Words
“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.”
― Best American Poetry 2016
― Best American Poetry 2016
“I can't fall any father than the ground,' says the wrangler to the men who predict that he's going to be thrown. There's a limit to everything, he means; and when all is said and done, strength is simply not to be afraid.”
― Don Segundo Sombra
― Don Segundo Sombra
“Under a black moon, the silent hills gaze on a scourged charcoal land; their hopes pinned on that lone seed that shall one day usher in the dawn.”
― Cross-Stitched Words
― Cross-Stitched Words
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