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    Levertov / Dust

    A Gift --- Just when you seem to yourself nothing but a flimsy web of questions, you are given the questions of others to hold in the… Read more "Levertov / Dust"

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    April 26, 2018 by Kate Gough

    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    – When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. The…… Read more “Oliver Wendell Holmes”

    August 26, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Eleanor

    No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story 1937 ~ When you cease to make a contribution you… Read more "Eleanor"

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    August 20, 2017December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Vincent

    There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing – on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well… Read more "Vincent"

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    August 26, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Einstein on Beauty

    The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. ~ Albert Einstein 1879-1955

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    May 22, 2016December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    A New Sun Rises

    Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.… Read more "A New Sun Rises"

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    October 10, 2015December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    ‘If the Furies Should Take…’

    'It is widely rumored, and also true, that I wrote my first novel in a closet. Before I get all rapturous and carried away here, I had… Read more "‘If the Furies Should Take…’"

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    July 4, 2015December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Roethke, from ‘The Middle of a Roaring World’

    To possess or be possessed by one’s own identity? * The self, the anti-self in dire embrace. * Instead of embracing God, he hugs himself. ~ Theodore…… Read more “Roethke, from ‘The Middle of a Roaring World’”

    June 28, 2015December 17, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Thoreau on the (Hu)man

    "See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all day he fears, not being immortal or divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of… Read more "Thoreau on the (Hu)man"

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    June 28, 2015December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Truest Confidant

    “I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen… Read more "Truest Confidant"

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    June 19, 2015December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    ‘soul not found’

    so much laughter…

    April 18, 2015December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    The Only Man

    “The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856…… Read more “The Only Man”

    December 6, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Comma

    “I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”… Read more "Comma"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    A New Proposition

    -- "Faith is not being sure. It is not being sure, but betting with your last cent... Faith is not a series of gilt-edged propositions that you… Read more "A New Proposition"

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    August 1, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Everything Unresolved

    -- "...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to… Read more "Everything Unresolved"

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    July 4, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    ‘And even those…

    'And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This… Read more "‘And even those…"

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    June 16, 2014December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties…

              I will try at some juncture to say my own bit here, but for now let me say that this is one of the most inspiring…… Read more “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties…”

    September 27, 2013December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

    Quote Board 2

    ~ Human Nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent. {Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)} Hope,…… Read more “Quote Board 2”

    May 12, 2012December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

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    n. (id-ee-oh-LAY-lee-uh) – use of a private or invented language.

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    n. (ull-trah-crepp-ih-DARE-ee-un) – an ignorant or presumptuous critic; one who gives opinions beyond his knowledge.

    (L. phrase ultra crepidam, “beyond the sole,” reply of Greek painter Apelles to a cobbler.)

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