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Thought For the Day: A Writer Writes From Empathy More Than Experience
“Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” – Nikki Giovanni
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Tagged Admit, Empathy, Experience, Hesitate, Nikki Giovanni, One Book, Poems, Thought For the Day, Write, Writers
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Thought For the Day: Every Particle of Life Holds Poetry
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it.” – Gustave Flaubert
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Thought For the Day:
“The true poem rests between the words.” – Vanna Bonta
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Tagged Between, Poem, Rest, Thought For the Day, True, Vanna Bonta, Words
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Thought For the Day: Open Borders Mean More Crime In the US
“Whenever President Trump talks about illegal immigration, he frequently says that open borders means more crime. Predictably, left-wing pundits accuse the president of being ‘xenophobic,’ even though he often praises legal immigration. But the president is absolutely correct. Not every … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: Fear Is the Worse of All Liars
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” – Rudyard Kipling
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Thought For the Day: Poetry Began With An Awe That Surpassed the Wisdom of Words
“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahhh, Begin, Cave, Classroom, First, First Poet, Lucille Clifton, Poem, Poetry, Savanna, Sky, Thought For the Day, Walk, Wonder
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Thought For the Day: Genuine Poetry Communicates Before It Is Understood
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” – T.S. Eliot
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Thought For the Day: Sometimes Sorry Is Not Enough and You Actually Have To Change
“I have learned that sometimes “sorry” is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.” – Claire London
Thought For the Day: Stoop Low To Rise High
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
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