For two decades, I’ve maintained a list of quotes I like by poets, writers, and thinkers I find interesting. This post is part of that series. All posts in the series are organized alphabetically. Some poets and writers have their own dedicated pages.

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Do these refugees remind you, too, of migrant winter birds / tourists drive thousands of miles to see, writing down / in moleskine waterproof notebooks wing shape, / breast color as they click on an app to identify / each nuance of song they meant / to actually hear? — Pam Uschuk