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“All my life I have generally avoided my neighbors. If I happen to encounter one of them I immediately move somewhere else.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

tags: idiosyncrasy, neighborship

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“I wanted to say something as a man does who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place but I said nothing, like a man who suddenly finds himself in a quiet place and also keeps quiet.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

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“You haven't been conscripted and I have to delay my return home so I'll stay with you while you tell me about these good people you've seen. One doesn't encounter good people every day and people don't see the good in others. You are blessed, Mr. Jakob, that God has brought good people to you and that you have discovered them to be good.”
― S.Y. Agnon, In Mr. Lublin's Store

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“All I wanted was a job like a book so good I'd be finishing it for the rest of my life.”
― Stephen Dunn

tags: books, page-turner, reading

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“Women may feel empowered by talking about their lives. They recover incidents of creation and strength that might be forgotten in the light of other negative stories, which they have come to believe about themselves.”
― Choman Hardi, Gendered Experiences of Genocide

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¡ POETRY ! — 22500 members — last activity Aug 31, 2026 04:34PM
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

SA reads — 169 members — last activity Aug 17, 2022 07:35AM
Welcome to SA Reads We started SA reads last year to read and discuss more books by SA authors. We were excited and surprise to meet both avid read ...more

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