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Quote for Today: Omar Khayyam
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September 17, 2018 by katmcdaniel

When you are so full of sorrow  that you can’t walk, can’t cry anymore,  think about the green foliage that …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: awakening, despair, exhaustion, green, nature, new, Omar Khayyam, overwhelmed, poetry, rain, renewal, sorrow, sparkle, wonder
Quote for Today: Barbara Kingsolver
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September 7, 2018 by katmcdaniel

I do understand that they fall when I’m least able to pay attention because poems fall not from a tree, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: awareness, Barbara Kingsolver, clamor, distraction, elementary, glory, grace, humanity, life, omnipresent, ordinary, overlooked, poetry, Small Wonder
Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa
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June 27, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Arise from sleep, old cat, and with great yawns and stretching amble out for love —Kobayashi Issa Public Domain …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: arise, awake, cat, haiku, Kobayashi Issa, love, old, poetry, sleep, stretch
Quote for Today: Mary Ruefle
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June 10, 2017 by katmcdaniel

It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes. ―Mary Ruefle, …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: art, between the lines, communication, expression, eyes, Madness Rack and Honey, Mary Reufle, mouth, personality, poetry, revealing, soul
Quote for Today: James Fenton
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May 20, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The term ‘epitaph’ itself means ‘something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.’ When an epitaph …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: burial, entombed, epitaph, form, James Fenton, memory, original, physical, poetry, representation, reproduction, solidified, stone, words
Where is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
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March 23, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Videos | Tags: Abdulaziz Al Maqaleh, Abdurahman Hussain, Arabic, hope, longing, nostalgia, peace, poetry, Sana'a, Sarah Ahmed, sensuality, Tony Anderson, Yemen
Quote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
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March 22, 2017 by katmcdaniel

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: A Defence of Poetry, beauty, change, familiar, hidden, perception, Percy Bysshe Shelley, poetry, reality, strange, transformation, unexpected, veil, world

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