“The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned.”

—Anaïs Nin

"There are then innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths revolve around those suns, just as the seven we can observe revolve around this sun which is close to us."

Cosmic pluralist Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy #OTD in 1600. 🔭

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Yes, this.

"The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."

--Gertrude Stein, b. 3 Feb, 1874

“Driving out of town, I see him crossing / the Brooks Pharmacy parking lot, and remember // how he would drop to his knees in the kitchen / and press his face to my dress” —Marie Howe, “Separation”

Stumbled over this useful teaching tool at the Poetry Foundation site, a glossary of poetic terms: www.poetryfoundation.org/education/gl...

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