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To see the Summer Sky

Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -

True Poems flee -

Emily Dickinson

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by basje

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Encounters with people who know how to tell a story properly are becoming ever rarer. And ever more frequently an awkward silence spreads through a group when someone expresses the wish to hear a story. It’s as if a capacity we had considered inalienable, the most reliable of all our capacities, has been taken from us: the ability to share experiences.

Walter Benjamin, tr. Tess Lewis | The Storyteller Essays

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Rejoignez le FDLDCL. (Le front de libération des coquillages libres)

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

- Oscar Wilde

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As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad - to be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

John Cassavetes

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Max Ernst, The Garden of France, 1962.

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Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

Rudy Francisco

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Soft days, with a gentle breeze, create a pause. Just enough to notice how tall grass sways, leaves breathe, clouds swim, and rose petals fall. Here’s to a kind day or night. Here’s to recalibrating in the way that helps you most.

— Carolyn Riker, FB, June 15, 2025 (via Make Believe Boutique)

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“O, to speak raspberry canes, whisper berries into your ear, the red ones that dropped on the moss.”

— Günter Eich, taken from Lisel Mueller’s notebook, The Poet’s Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of 26 American Poets, eds. Stephen Kuusisto, Deborah Tall, & David Weiss (W. W. Norton & Co., 1995)