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Quotes from what I’m reading…I find myself collecting my favorite quotes, poems and art for no real reason, so I’m putting them here now.
“there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them…”
-Simon Winchester, “The Professor and The Madman”
#quotes #books
-Simon Winchester, “The Professor and The Madman”
#quotes #books
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
“How beautiful, these things you do,
in case they help…”
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #victoriaadukweibulley
in case they help…”
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #victoriaadukweibulley
December 6, 2025 at 3:57 AM
“How beautiful, these things you do,
in case they help…”
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #victoriaadukweibulley
in case they help…”
-Victoria Adukwei Bulley
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #victoriaadukweibulley
“Winter is an interlude.
Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi
Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
“Winter is an interlude.
Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi
Winter is a beatitude.”
-Elaine Equi
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #elaineequi
“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
November 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
“They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare #typolol
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Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Deer in the forest | Ivan Generalic
“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
November 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare,”Romeo & Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #poems #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
“O, teach me how I should forget to think!”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“O, teach me how I should forget to think!”
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
-William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #shakespeare
“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Matthew knelt before her and prayed for something which it isn’t regarded as proper to pray for, something which, if it ever came to pass, he would be compelled to confess and repent.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
Reposted
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
November 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
“The thing was to make the right mistake, not the wrong one.”
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
-Gilbert Adair, “The Dreamers”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #gilbertadair
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Talk to me like the rain
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.
~ Tennessee Williams
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.
~ Tennessee Williams
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Talk to me like the rain
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.
~ Tennessee Williams
and let me listen,
let me lie here and listen.
~ Tennessee Williams
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Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019
November 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sherrie Wolf. Plums. 2019
“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.”
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“…the door opened, and a mink coat walked in with a blonde inside. She was in her late twenties, had a model’s walk, and a figure made to wear clothes, but one that would look pretty good without them.”
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
-Louis L’Amour, “Dead Man’s Trail”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“Hard-headed as a blind mule and rough as a chapped lip.”
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
-Louis L’Amour, “The Hills of Homicide”
#quotes #poetry #booksky #whatimreading #louislamour
“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“But no, I was out for stars:
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked,
And I hadn’t been.”
-Robert Frost
#quotes #poetry #poems #poem #booksky #whatimreading #robertfrost
Reposted
"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"Poem" by Joe Brainard.
