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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing

by Marie Kondō (Goodreads Author)

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"I love how short and to the point the chapters are. I really enjoy the soothing nature within which the book is written. It's actually enjoyable...for a book about one of my least favorite topics in life right now- tidying." — Mar 28, 2019 03:59PM

Mar 28, 2019 03:59PM

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Helium (Button Poetry)

by Rudy Francisco

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"Absolutely love his writing!

"However, she makes everything
feel like midnight.
The streets are empty and her car
is the only one on the road"" — May 30, 2019 10:31AM

May 30, 2019 10:31AM

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Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)

by Leigh Bardugo (Goodreads Author)

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I hope this reaches her in time by R.H. Sin

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you wear sadness like the latest fashion you wear pain like garments you’ve been draped in anguish

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Angela’s Quotes

“We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.”
― Marcus Garvey

tags: emancipation, human-development, mental, slavery

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“If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, so can you.”
― Noor Shirazie

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“We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.”
― David Foenkinos, Delicacy

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“The day
you tame her
is the day
you tame the
entire ocean.”
― Noor Shirazie

tags: women

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“My playlists are cluttered
with sad songs and fractured memories,
yet I unconvincingly claim I am trying to
move on.”
― Noor Shirazie, Into the Wildfire: Mourning Departures

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¡ POETRY ! — 22568 members — last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
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