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“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
- Oscar Wilde
I just came across this quote, and it really struck me.
I think Wilde is saying that for some of us, life is our art – living is where our talent lies, rather than in creating art of …
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My friend Letty works in Del Ray. The other day she was taking a walk around the ‘hood when she stumbled on this “poetry fence”:
The note at the top reads,
“If I can keep squirrels from raiding paper and push-pins from here for their nests, you’ll see poems here …
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(Hat tip to All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church – this poem was in today’s sermon on the spiritual lessons of failure. Emphasis below is mine.)
You do not have …
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That’s it: I need a cell phone with a camera. Today I saw so many things I wanted to share: a sign for bathroompoet.net in, well, a bathroom, at a wonderful Takoma Park spa; brightly colored bungalows, also in TP; people dancing in a parking lot; a guy teaching his girlfriend how to ride a motorcycle; men eating Italian ices out of Chinese take-out boxes, in Mount Pleasant; …
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