Tag Archives: Poets Born In November

TCS: To Lose in Ignorant Blindness What We Might Hold Fast

Posted on November 25, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _____________________________ “Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”– Gloria Steinem ________________ “If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than … Continue reading →

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TCS: Give Me a Song of Hope and a World Where I Can Sing It

Posted on November 18, 2024 by wordcloud9

   Good Morning! _____________________________ I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.– Alexandre Dumas ________________ Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth … Continue reading →

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TCS: Turning the Wrong Corner, Into a Glare of Light

Posted on November 11, 2024 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning! _______________________________ “Time is what we want most,  but what we use worst.” – William Penn ________________ “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was … Continue reading →

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TCS: O Fellow Citizen, What Have They Done to Us?

Posted on November 4, 2024 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! _______________________________ “There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.” – Mary Renault, author of Fire From Heaven ________________ “Here we are, the most clever species ever … Continue reading →

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TCS: Are You a Visitor?

Posted on November 27, 2023 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! ______________________________ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ― William Blake ________________ “A poem once read is the first note of a symphony, a toe dipped in the water, … Continue reading →

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TCS: When the Wolves Come

Posted on November 20, 2023 by wordcloud9

     Good Morning! ______________________________ We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in the cold … – Wallace Stevens, Pulitzer Prize- winning poet ________________ If we but give it time, a work of art … Continue reading →

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TCS: A Word After a Word After a Word is Power

Posted on November 13, 2023 by wordcloud9

    Good Morning! ______________________________ “You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what’s in your heart.” ─ Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom … Continue reading →

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TCS: No Question Is Ever Settled Until It is Settled Right

Posted on November 6, 2023 by wordcloud9

Good Morning! ______________________________ “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ” ─ Percy Bysshe Shelley ________________ I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative … I believe that … Continue reading →

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