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Quotes from what I’m reading, watching, etc. 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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Gary Buckley @garybuckley.bsky.social · last wk.

LollyB @rooksnest.bsky.social · 2w ago

David Hockney

@fravery.bsky.social · 3w ago

by David Hockney

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I don’t believe if we try our best We’ll get through life with no sadness Pain will find us and the best you can do Is love the little child inside of you” -Mason Jennings, “Dark Wings” #quotes #lyrics #poetry #poems #poem #whatimlisteningto #masonjennings #darkwings

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · last mo.

“Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.” -“This Be The Verse”, by Philip Larkin #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #larkin

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · last mo.

“Yes YES” -Nael, age 6 #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky

Democrats @democrats.org · 2mo ago

The Obamas unveil their first-ever commissioned portrait together, painted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library.

The Obamas' first-ever commissioned portrait together, painted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, now featured in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library.

The Obamas look at their first-ever commissioned portrait together, painted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library. Njideka Akunyili Crosby is standing opposite the Obamas.

Christina🌊🌊@sassycc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Updated poem 👇

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP David Hockney

A Bigger Splash - 1967 David Hockney painting of an modernist LA pool with no diver visible but a huge splash in the water as if one dived into it

Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RIP Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi artwork from Persepolis showing you girl in hijab w “pink is not ded” on back. She is being grabbed by women in hijabs

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 2mo ago

By Laura Makabresku #art #poem #makabresku

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Painting by Javier Mayoral

Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

This is Not the Poem I Had Hoped to Write

This is not the poem I had hoped to write
when I sat at my desk and the page was white.
You see, there were other words I’d had in mind,
yet this is what I leave behind.

I thought it was a poem to eradicate war;
one of such power, it would heal all the sores
of a world torn apart by conflict and schism.
But it isn’t.

Lovers, I’d imagined, would quote from it daily,
Mothers would sing it to soothe crying babies.
And whole generations would be given new hope.
Nope.

I had grand aspirations. Believe me, I tried.
Humanity examined with lessons applied.
But the right words escaped me; so often they do.
Have these in lieu.

Brian Bilston

Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a point where the point fades a quiet graceful resignation an unimportant waning ache #poetry

@zzorgon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"I didn't mean to fall out of bed after sex" by Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social #nationalpoetrymonth #poem #poetry

I didn't mean to fall out of bed after sex
but don't worry, it'll probably happen again.

Call it applause, call it a compliment,
call me whatever name you like, call me back.

The early stages of falling for each other,
pushing and pulling against unseen forces

until the resistance collapses and
hearts accelerate at 9.8m/s².

Along my equator I grow hungry and
weaker for the sight of you standing to wash

offering me a hand to help me up
that I decline, because I like the view.

This is how we communicate, bodies in heat
reaching pinnacle velocity, then cooling

grounded in the fact that we are not one soul,
but two separate entities orbiting the truth

that we may collide but never reach understanding
of one another, or of love for that matter,

but that goes without saying,
down here on the floor.

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“I don’t know how to tell you…I’ll try to tell you,’ she said. “Did you ever hear of planting hands?” -Josh Steinbeck, “The Chrysanthemums” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #steinbeck #hotandsharpandlovely

Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 4mo ago

Letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe in 1955.

Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired

I don't mean I want to sleep.
I mean I want to disappear for a while.
To be rain on a stranger's roof.
To be smoke rising from someone else's fire.
I don't want to die.
But I do want to rest in a way
the world has never allowed me.
I don't want comfort.
I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved.

IrishLisa 🌈@irishlisa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

a sudden small jolt you laughed and i remembered how light life can feel #haikufeels #Jolt #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Just as a person sits in the cold, and by keeping motionless enjoys some illusion of warmth, so she sat inwardly motionless, lest by some interior movement she would disturb the numbness of her mind, and feel the pain of her condition.” -Alan Paton, “Life for a Life” #quotes #poetry #booksky

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“I don’t care: any poem, this poem.” -Richard Brautigan #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky #brautigan

Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Brutal.

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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JRBHaiku @jrbhaiku.bsky.social · 4mo ago

at the day’s ending the moon, the ocean and I waning together #DailyHaikuPrompt (Waning, Halt) #senryu #haiku

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Today I was unable to visit Lotte because I had an engagement I could not cancel. What could I do? I sent my servant to her house, so that I would at least have someone about me who had been near her today.” -J.W. Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“…you don’t want to know more about this. And then: you don’t know anything unless you do.” -Mary Oliver #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #maryoliver

Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.” -Lord Byron #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #byron

Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Put a tight seal on the heart, that leaky bucket. The heart saved against speaking.” -Tess Gallagher #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tessgallagher

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Egon Schiele. Self-portrait with hands on chest. 1910