“Having made the decision, do not revise it unless some new fact comes to your knowledge. Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“We live in our heads. You know, we are these vast things that just go in and in forever, and not only that but we comprise all of the things that we imagine, we comprise all of the things we've dreamed, we comprise the things that we've believed and we comprise the things that we used to believe but we manage no longer to believe in.”
―
―
“You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.”
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
― The Quotable Gordimer; or, The Wit and Wisdom of Nadine Gordimer
¡ POETRY !
— 22584 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 ...more
Ana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Ana
Lists liked by Ana
















































