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TCS: Have You Forgotten What We Were Like Then?
Good Morning! __________________________________________ The present changes the past. Looking back, you do not find what you left behind. – Kiran Desai, Indian author of The Inheritance of Loss _____________ “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame … Continue reading
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TCS: Wouldn’t You Be Devastated If They Only Serve Decaffeinated?
Good Morning! ________________________________________ “The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.” “All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.” – Edith Sitwell, English poet ________________________ … Continue reading
TCS: What is June Anyway?
Good Morning! _________________________________________ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser, poet, social justice activist_________________ “Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.”— Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet_________________
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TCS: So May I Find My Place in This Shifting World
Good Morning! __________________________________________ You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. – Joseph Joubert, French essayist whose work was all published posthumously _____________________________ “My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs … Continue reading
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TCS: I Have Seen Flowers Come in Stony Places
Good Morning! __________________________________________ He loves his country best who strives to make it best. – Robert Ingersoll, humanist _______________________ The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.– Thucydides
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TCS: A Garden of Inexhaustible Language
Good Morning! __________________________________________ “Still, no one finally knows what a poet is supposedeither to be or to do. Especially in this country, onetakes on the job—because all that one does in Americais considered a “job”— with no clear sense as to … Continue reading
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TCS: “Poetry, like bread, is for everyone”
Good Morning! __________________________________________ Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. – Thomas Gray Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.– Aristotle
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TCS: Spring’s Perfect Imminent Hour
Good Morning! __________________________________________ “What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “… honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents …” – Samuel Scoville Jr., … Continue reading
TCS: Ada Limón’s Instructions on Not Giving Up
Good Morning! _______________________ ‘Love ends. But what if it doesn’t?’ – Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind” ‘I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm … Continue reading
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