quote holding

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am organizing, found in a journal:

"The weak overcomes its menace, the strong overcomes itself."
- Marianne More

"The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured."
- Naomi Shihab Nye

engraved on the collra of a dog which I gave to his royal highness,
"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"
- Alex Pope.

"God damned it. This is hell, but I planned it, I sawed it,
I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me."
- Alan Dugan

"Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain."
- Alastair Reid

"I am two fools, I know,
For loving, and for saying so,
In whining poetry."
- John Donne

Comments

[phreid.livejournal.com]

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane

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XD LOVE THAT.

[harukami]

I want to take that John Donne poem and hold it close for all those days when my Creative Writing class is full of amateur, terrible love poetry. XD

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Naomi Shihab Nye

OMG. Naomi and I are best friends EV.

I exaggerate, of course. She is just this insanely accessible person here in San Antonio and she said very nice things about my poetry and published some of my friend's work and she wrote a nice article about my writing class in the newspaper and everyone I know go "OMG Naomi" and are all very in love with her.

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=D yay for non-ivory towerness, that's what I say!