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Partita

by Barbara Kingsolver

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All My Rivers Are Gone: A Journey of Discovery Through Glen Canyon

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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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had been happy, happy enough, but now I often found myself uttering a spontaneous prayer that went, simply: She is here, still here. It was as if a rushing river had routed itself through my house, which was pervaded now by a freshwater ...more

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“You can love completely without complete understanding.”
― Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

tags: humanity, love

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“Because who else had loved her? Who had ever held her in their arms and told her that he heart, beating away in her chest, was there on purpose?”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

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“...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

tags: delight, joy

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“But isn't this
how it happens? Aren’t all great
love stories, at their core,
great mistakes?”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

tags: love, love-stories, mistakes, poem, poetry

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“Hatred was easy. The permutations constant over the years...he wanted me to know what I already knew: that I had no power. He saw my need and used it against me. My hatred for him was immediate. ... The hatred vibrated beneath every girl's face.”
― Emma Cline, The Girls

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¡ POETRY ! — 22485 members — last activity Oct 27, 2026 04:03PM
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