February 2012
13 posts
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“Inspiration is a cat. You think it came because you called it. It came because...”
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“Men do not fear commitment. Men fear a lifetime of criticism and indifference.”
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“Good news: The light at the end of the tunnel is not a train.
Bad news:...”
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“I am bored
by my own vanity
so how do you suppose
I feel about
yours?”
“The rich speak of food as tho it were jewelry, the poor as tho it were blood.”
“Of the horrors committed by man against the world perhaps the worst is his...”
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“The afternoon sings sharp
and crowds the beat
bap bap bap
with urgencies.
I...”
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“The immature mind and the unstable mind are remarkably similar.”
January 2012
21 posts
“Grief: the great
counterweight.
To raise someone up
others must pull
down.”
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“Veni Vidi Wonky.”
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“A bridge requires more hands than stones.”
“A broken mirror sees more stars.”
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“To be a good writer, I don’t think it’s necessary to start with a...”
“Obscurity is bottomless.
Fame,
no deeper
than a shot glass.”
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“For as often as it has saved my life, music should be sold in pharmacies.”
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WHY I DON'T READ GARY SNYDER
It must be good seeing the world as happy and pregnant, the bee in her circles amid the clover, each day a new gathering of friends around the cookstove. You really must come visit us sometime, under the freeway. You can empty the fireflies from your pockets and read to us while we warm our Alpo over the fire.
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“Gratitude is not born
of what you receive,
but of what you lose.”
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“Tonight I’ll bleed
my poems,
while you bleed
your investment schemes....”
“When people say
“life got in the way”
they mean
work
illness...”
“Strong emotions do not make for stronger facts.”
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“I regard most people as I regard sewage treatment plants. I’m glad...”
“To remain open-hearted is to risk your last candle to the rain.”
December 2011
10 posts
“The hermit is free because he does not fear exclusion.”
“To be human
is to be part of a large and evolving organism
with a very bad...”
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“Politics are much like a parade:
we must ride high
upon the shoulders of our...”
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“The glass-half-full people never seem to ask:
Half full of what?”
November 2011
17 posts
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“Gauguin
may have had it
right. Pack up the easel
sail to Polynesia and...”
“Q: Have you ever felt the presence of God?
A: I barely feel the presence of...”
“Faith is a sack of potatoes, so easily used to club a man dead and moments later...”
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“Movements, protests, causes, religions, armies, flags, and teams all have their...”
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“ON GRATITUDE
I wasn’t working and she was
two days from a paycheck
so...”