For more than a decade, 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.

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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

For more than a decade, 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.

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For more than a decade, 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.

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Our dreams are an absence / of fire. They take us / all the way to heaven, / by a curious path. / They take us / all the way to hell. — Jeff Weddle

Falling in love is a desolating experience, but not when it is with a countryside. — T. H. White

Watch over me. / Night is here / and I am naked. — Thomas Zvi Wilson

Construct an instrument, or find something, or use an instrument as part of a construction which can make 5 different pitches, or 11 or 3 different pitches; 6 different qualities of sound (they can be made to depend on the manner of performance), or 2; and which can sustain sounds at least somewhat before they begin to fade. — Christian Wolff

AII the well-made, passionless, wooden little poems one sees everywhere nowadays, panting like tongues in the books and magazines. But poetry is not a tongue. Poetry is the dark beast with its mouth open, and you’ve got to walk down that tongue and into the windy mouth. And you’ve got to sing while you walk. — Charles Wright

The cowbells follow one another / Into the distances of the afternoon. — James Wright

For more than a decade, 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.

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For more than a decade, 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.

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all that separates the ghost is / the body / the sea / the salt. — Hannah Yerington

For more than a decade, 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.

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