Author: poetryfest

“ …moral courage. Without it, no constitution can save us, but with it, no hardship can overcome us.” By denying the American people a fair trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) also deprived the president of something that he desperately sought — exoneration. There can be no exoneration without a legitimate trial. Out of […]

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When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. Elizabeth Hardwick, writer, from “Sleepless Nights” Image: Atik Sulianami

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A woodman came into a forest to ask the trees to give him a handle for his axe. It seemed so modest a request that the principal trees at once agreed to it, and it was settled among them that a plain, homely ash tree should furnish what was wanted. No sooner had the woodman […]

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Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous “I don’t know. Wislawa Szymborska, writer, poet, “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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“Maybe, said his brain and his upbringing, if you make enough tea and small talk, time reverses and all bad things are undone.” Louise Penny, Canadian, from Still Life Photo: Chi Chen

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You Who Wronged BY CZESLAW MILOSZ TRANSLATED BY RICHARD LOURIE . You who wronged a simple man Bursting into laughter at the crime, And kept a pack of fools around you To mix good and evil, to blur the line, . Though everyone bowed down before you, Saying virtue and wisdom lit your way, Striking […]

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A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. Euripides, Greek, playwright

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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. Wislawa Szymborska, poet

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You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. Look around you. Did you think these people made a plan to sleep in the sports hall with you? But here we are now, sleeping together on the floor. So, there’s no need […]

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You’re born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation. Nora Ephron. writer, filmmaker

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