May 2011
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Outside the window
they’re building the damn hotel,
nail by nail,...
– from Postcards, Margaret Atwood
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More and more frequently the edges
of me dissolve and I become
a wish to...
– More and More, Margaret Atwood
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Not that anyone here
but you would understand.
The rest of them would like to...
– from Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing, Margaret Atwood
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Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
With pretty lamps to...
– Interior, Dorothy Parker
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And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned;
The...
– Incurable, Dorothy Parker
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All her hours were yellow sands,
Blown in foolish whorls and tassels;
Slipping...
– Epitaph for a Darling Lady, Dorothy Parker
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I’m going to Greece for a bit. bye bye
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We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone...
– We are the Music Makers, Arthur O’Shaugnessy
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The trees along this city street,
Save for the traffic and the trains,
Would...
– City Trees, Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
Look like...
– Circe’s Power, Louise Gluck
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[I]n short, at eighteen, the school of Experience is to be entered, and her...
– from Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
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Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it is secured; and how hardly...
– from Shirley, Charlotte Bronte
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Twilight only was with her, and tranquil, ruddy Firelight; to these Sisters, the...
– from The Professor, Charlotte Bronte.
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The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow ;
But a...
– Emily Bronte
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Love is like the wild rose-briar,
Friendship like the holly-tree —
The...
– Love and Friendship, Emily Bronte.
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Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every...
– Emily Bronte.
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but if a living dance upon dead minds
why,it is love;but at the earliest spear...
– e.e. cummings
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because i love you)last night
clothed in sealace
appeared to me
your mind...
– e.e. cummings
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