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Submit your Poetry to the Festival. Three Options: 1) To post. 2) To have performed by an actor 3) To be made into a film.

“The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.” — Art of Quotation

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt, book quote from “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

via “The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.” — Art of Quotation

“ The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth… My energy is out of whack — I want my normal problems back.” — Art of Quotation

Wish The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth. I want to hug, I want to hold, I want this deadly scourge controlled. I want to walk amidst a crowd. I want to lift this morbid shroud. I sit, sequestered in my home, And yearn to mingle, travel, roam. My […]

via “ The weeks go by, the fourth, the fifth, And normalcy’s become a myth… My energy is out of whack — I want my normal problems back.” — Art of Quotation

“ when I look back at [a] drawing, it carries a couple hours of my life with it. ” — Art of Quotation

Diane Olivier, artist and educator remembers sketching a tomato slice on a trip to France: “When I look at that drawing I remember the temperature, I remember where we were sitting,” she said. “I remember the shadow falling across the picnic table. I remember the people I was talking to. And when I look back […]

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“ the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” — Art of Quotation

“As the vilest writer hath his readers, so the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” Jonathan Swift, writer

via “ the greatest liar hath his believers: and it often happens, that if a lie be believed only for an hour, it hath done its work.” — Art of Quotation

“ We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our dead ideas… Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. “ — Art of Quotation

What is this thing that has happened to us? It’s a virus, yes. In and of itself it holds no moral brief. But it is definitely more than a virus. Some believe it’s God’s way of bringing us to our senses. Others that it’s a Chinese conspiracy to take over the world. Whatever it is, […]

via “ We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our dead ideas… Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it. “ — Art of Quotation