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Quotes from what I’m reading…I find myself collecting my favorite quotes, poems and art for no real reason, so I’m putting them here now.
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“Winter is an interlude.

Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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“I like when I evergreen, current and berry…”
-Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky #trommer
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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“They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”

#quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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“O, teach me how I should forget to think!”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”

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November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

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November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Talk to me like the rain
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.

~ Tennessee Williams
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.”
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”

#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost

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October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
Poem Sometimes everything seems so oh, I don't know.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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October 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“She had gotten the better of herself, and asked for none of the things that belonged to this world.”
-The Phantom Carriage, 1921, dir. Victor
Sjöström

#quotes #poetry #cinema #whatimwatching #victorsjöström
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“Sunshine is something
I hear of
on late-night news.
A pathetic mortal vampire
since you revoked
your invitation.”
-S.L. Robinson

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #dreamsofdecadence #slrobinson
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“Alas! I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.”
-Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein”

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October 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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“No Kings” was a popular topic for Poems While You Wait at the Art Institute today
October 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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“I have no use
for my pen, which lies
languorously without grief.”
-Ha Jin

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #hajin
October 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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“…brushing
everything as she passes
with her slow hands
and soft lips —“
-Mary Oliver

#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #maryoliver
October 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM