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    Levertov, Dust

      A Gift   Just when you seem to yourselfnothing but a flimsy webof questions, you are giventhe questions of others to holdin the emptiness of your…… Read more “Levertov, Dust”

    April 26, 2018February 1, 2021 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

    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

    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

    ‘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

    Happy New Year Everyone!

    I’m back. 2 really good quotes for everyone: When the ancients said that the solitary was likely to be either a god or a beast, they meant…… Read more “Happy New Year Everyone!”

    January 1, 2012June 28, 2015 by Kate Gough

    Writer’s Quotes

    “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 “Writer’s Quotes”

    November 30, 2011December 16, 2017 by Kate Gough

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