Saturday, September 05, 2026

1219. And Then There Is That Incredible Moment - Kate Light

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  when you realize what you’re reading, what’s being revealed to you, how it is not what you expected, what you thought you were reading, wh...
Friday, August 28, 2026

1218. Transformations - Thomas Hardy

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 Portion of this yew Is a man my grandsire knew, Bosomed here at its foot: This branch may be his wife, A ruddy human life Now turned to a g...
Wednesday, August 19, 2026

1217. Sometimes - Evelyn Waugh

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  Sometimes I feel the past and the  future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.
Saturday, August 15, 2026

1216. Quotes from “Thoreau and the Art of Life” Roderick MacIver

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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. The pleasure we...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

1215. Foreigner - Imtiaz Dharker

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I was born a foreigner. I carried on from there to become a foreigner everywhere I went, even in the place planted with my relatives,  six-f...
Monday, July 27, 2026

1214. Ripeness - Jane Hirshfield

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 Ripeness is what fails away with ease. Not only the heavy apple, the pear,  but also the dried brown strands of autumn iris from their core...
Thursday, July 09, 2026

1213. Poetry - Pablo Neruda

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 T ranslated by Alistair Reid And it was at that age…Poetry arrived in search of me. I don’t know, I don’t know where it came from, from win...
Friday, July 03, 2026

1212. “ i thank You God for most this amazing” - e. e. cummings

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  i thank You God for most this amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which ...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

1211. Illusions - Jim Fadiman

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There are no ex-lovers, Only candles with wicks close-timed. Glowing in vast spaces Their light ones filled. There are no broken hearts, Onl...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

1210. The Two Of Us Together And Each Of Us Alone - Yehuda Amichai

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  Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld         “The two of them together and each of them alone”           —from...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

1209. Jorge Luis Borges - Jorge Luis Borges

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  But after all writing poetry is nothing more  than a guided dream and now now advanced age has taught me to resign myself to being Borges.
Saturday, May 09, 2026

1208. As Seen At The Uffizi - Dan Brown -

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  An audience of shepherds  Looks on adoringly As Mary gently bounces The babe upon her knee. To Mary’s side stands Joseph. He isn’t looking...