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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: good-deeds, goodness, humanity, inspirational, life, light, world

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“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus

tags: judgment

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“True generosity toward the future consists in giving everything to the present.”
― Albert Camus

tags: future-present

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“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

tags: on-fiction

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“Sometimes it's impossible to say certain things ... Writing is something needed by man to share experience.”
― Arnost Lustig

tags: writing

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Lectores Mexicanos — 7208 members — last activity Mar 03, 2026 05:05PM
Un grupo de lectores Mexicanos y de lecturas de México. Para no sentirnos solos entre tanto anglicismo.

Books en Español — 16514 members — last activity 10 hours, 20 min ago
Este grupo, creado en el 2007, nace de una iniciativa colectiva para abrir un espacio a los hispanohablantes dentro de la amplia red de intercambio qu ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22553 members — last activity Mar 04, 2026 01:17PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Club de escritores y lectores que escriben y leen libros en Español — 2384 members — last activity Mar 02, 2026 06:19AM
Este grupo une, promueve y es una voz para todos los escritores y lectores de Goodreads que leen libros escritos en español. La idea central del grup ...more

Lectores CDMX — 23 members — last activity Nov 04, 2021 08:38AM
Es un grupo credo para lectores que vivimos en Ciudad de México, con la finalidad de poder intercambiar ideas, libros e inclusive para conversar en un ...more

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