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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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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“It would crest through the trees red and lovely, older than love, neither cruel nor kind.” -Christopher Buehlman, “Those Across the River.” #quotes #poetry #moon #booksky #whatimreading #christopherbuehlman
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“A hard wind like a tormented thought pushed it to the ground.” -Craig Malewski, “An Old White Pine” #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #whereimwalking #booksky #craigmalewski
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Of poemPhoto of fallen tree next to post with poem
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“For just that little while there wasn’t any other place I wanted to be, and life was sweet and foreign like the taste of a mango.” -Christopher Buehlman, “Those Across the River” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #christopherbuehlman
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now was the Day Departing, by Gustave Doré
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Damn
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
By Steven McDonald
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“I thought it was the worst, thought nothing worse could come.” -Marie Howe #quotes #poem #poems #poetry #whatimreading #booksky #mariehowe
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“Alas it is a boring song but it works every time.” -Margaret Atwood #quotes #poem #poems #poetry #whatimreading #booksky #margaretatwood
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#booksky #filmsky #whatimwatching #whatimreading #theodyssey
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“please. let me fall naturally to the ground under the sun” -Thomas P. Crawford #quotes #poem #poems #poetry #whatimreading #booksky #thomaspcrawford
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“let him find honey where there was once a slaughter” -Danez Smith #quotes #poem #poems #poetry #danezsmith #whatimreadimg #booksky
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“what happens happens this did” -Ana Božičević #quotes #poem #poems #poetry #whatimreading #booksky #božičević
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Edouard Boubat, Remy listening the sea, Paris, France, 1995
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LollyB @rooksnest.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
David Hockney
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
by David Hockney
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“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
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“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
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“Yes YES” -Nael, age 6 #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky
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Democrats @democrats.org · 15/06/2026
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.
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Christina🌊🌊 @sassycc.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Updated poem 👇
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
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
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
By Laura Makabresku #art #poem #makabresku
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Painting by Javier Mayoral
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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.


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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There's a point where the point fades a quiet graceful resignation an unimportant waning ache #poetry
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zzorgon.bsky.social @zzorgon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"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.
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“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
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 17/04/2026
Letter from John Steinbeck to Marilyn Monroe in 1955.
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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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.
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IrishLisa 🌈 @irishlisa.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
a sudden small jolt you laughed and i remembered how light life can feel #haikufeels #Jolt #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“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
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
“I don’t care: any poem, this poem.” -Richard Brautigan #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #whatimreading #booksky #brautigan
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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 · 01/04/2026
at the day’s ending the moon, the ocean and I waning together #DailyHaikuPrompt (Waning, Halt) #senryu #haiku
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“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
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
“…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
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Bart Harley Jarvis @williamzabka424.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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.
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.” -Lord Byron #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #byron
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“Put a tight seal on the heart, that leaky bucket. The heart saved against speaking.” -Tess Gallagher #quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #tessgallagher
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Egon Schiele. Self-portrait with hands on chest. 1910
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
“Try and vary your methods as you will your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed in your actions.” -Agatha Christie, “The A.B.C. Murders”
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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My heart breaks for the children who get no justice in this world.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
L. Birge Harrison (American, 1854–1929). Tunnel of Trees in Winter (oil on canvas).
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
“Orr was where he had been for months—alone: knowing he was insane and knowing he was not insane, simultaneously and intensely. It was enough to drive him insane.” -Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Lathe of Heaven” #quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #scifi #leguin #ursulakleguin
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
-Son of Frankenstein, dir. Rowland V. Lee (1939) #poetry #poetryinmotion #lovethisshot #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #frankenstein #sonoffrankenstein
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Name Here @namehereok.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn’t be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.” -Bride of Frankenstein, dir. James Whale (1935) #quotes #poetry #film #filmsky #whatimwatching #frankenstein #sonoffrankenstein #jameswhale
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