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“When elements to elements conform,
And dust is as it should be, shall I not
Feel all I see, less dazzling, but more warm?
The bodiless thought? the Spirit of each spot?
Of which, even now, I share at times the immortal lot?”
― Lord Byron, Byron: Poems

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“Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”
― John Ruskin

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“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.”
― Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

tags: bread, companionship, life, love, paradise, poetry, satisfaction, sufficiency, wine

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“Outside, in the slow moonlit night, the wind slowly shakes things that cast fluttering shadows. Perhaps it's just hanging laundry from the floor above, but the shadows don't know they're from shirts, and they impalpably flutter in hushed harmony with everything else.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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“Of his sentences perhaps not more than nine-tenths stand straight on their legs; the remainder are in quite angular attitudes, buttressed-up by props (of parentheses and dashes), and ever with this or the other tagrag hanging from them; a few even sprawl-out helplessly on all sides, quite broken-backed and dismembered.”
― Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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Theatre Books and Plays — 1545 members — last activity Aug 10, 2026 05:24AM
A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.

The Immortal Poets Society — 131 members — last activity May 12, 2024 04:14AM
We read and discuss poetry from Homer to Frost. We are mostly interested in English and American poetry from Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Robert Fros ...more

Experimental Poetry — 199 members — last activity Aug 18, 2026 08:00AM
for experimental poetry enthusiasts +++++++ from all corners of the avant/arriere-garde... futurism, dada, ultraism, gendai haiku, surrealism, angry ...more