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“Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks.
I remember the line from that poem now.
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.”
― Kim Addonizio, Little Beauties

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“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

tags: boys, hate, love

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“Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.”
― Jack Kerouac

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“Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.”
― Kim Addonizio, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within

tags: poetry, reading, writing

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“I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: living, path, revolution

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Book Club — 1359 members — last activity Nov 14, 2020 11:18PM
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Indie Book Collective — 2957 members — last activity Jan 07, 2026 09:24AM
A group of indie authors, helping each other out and bringing new books to the world

Honest Publishing — 25 members — last activity Jul 13, 2016 12:50AM
Honest Publishing is a British independent book publisher of both fiction and non-fiction. Founded by three friends in 2010, the company strives to pu ...more

new poetry — 20 members — last activity Jul 06, 2020 04:23AM
a group for thems that live off the vapors of freshly minted verse ... poets with an eye on the past (ancient or not) and a proclivity for the experim ...more

Punk Hostage Press — 374 members — last activity Feb 19, 2020 09:45AM
Punk Hostage Press is a not-for-profit book publishing imprint that also acts as a an outreach program to connect writers and contemporary literature ...more

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