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#humour #female poets #micropoetry #poets on tumblr #spilled writing #spilledink #spilled poetry #poetsandwriters

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“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Dancing at the Edge of the World

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Mark Tennant (born 1950), Clothesline

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Fresh peaches

soft skin, yellow gold within

summer on my chin

Derek Penix, Peaches, Oil

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Portrait

Artwork a face

the mirror a frame

no portrait the same

#female poets #poets on tumblr #short

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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

— B. F. Skinner

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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

— Joan Didion

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“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.”

— Piet Mondrian

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#breakups #heartbreak #relationships #marriage #relationship #arguments

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“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”

— William Faulkner

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“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

— Charles Bukowski

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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

— Johannes Kepler

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“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

— Alan Watts