Bob
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Bob
@robert64862
Write a little poetry. Retired. Don't do pronouns.
Katılım Nisan 2023
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“Fiction writers really expect to be heard. Whereas poets don’t. Poets go into writing poetry knowing it’s speculation.” —Fanny Howe
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The best fifteen bucks you'll invest this month.... amazon.com/Invisible-Curr… (suggest paperback)
Joseph Massey@jmasseypoet
Good morning! I woke up to find that I have not one but two books in the top ten on Amazon’s Best Sellers in American Poetry list. The new book, Invisible Current, is #1. America Is the Poem, which came out a year ago, is #7.
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“I would almost say that they save me, and daily.”
Cian McCarthy@arealmofwonder
Your Sunday Poem 🤌🏼✨️ • Mary Oliver •
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@robert64862 @Tom_Lisi Thank you, Bob. You’re always so kind to me. 😊💜
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Oh I know this feeling @bitsweetTess both for this trip & aging. Wonderful time with family & friends along with someone very close in great turmoil.
I’m at peace with it all & accept this is what life brings.
Happy Birthday my friend 🎂🤓💙, I hope you enjoy a wonderful birthday.
Bittersweet Tess@bitsweetTess
@Tom_Lisi It’s bittersweet, Tom. On one hand, it’s my birthday this Sunday. On the other hand, I am in total denial of aging 😆 I hope you’re surrounded by friends and sunshine this weekend!
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The idiot who says we can’t use essays because AI can do it is the same idiot who used to say we can’t use essays because when would an employee ever be required to write one. Essays are, and always have been, about the learning and thinking process.
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The modern world will accept no dogmas upon any authority; but it will accept any dogmas on no authority.
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this is an area of philosophy i have thought very little about
florence 🦐🪻@morallawwithin
I think people should be less confident about the philosophy of mind
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'Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?'
T. S. Eliot,
The Rock
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I absolutely despair for the future of humankind when reading the comments on this app.
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Is it moral to feel joy in a world where so many are denied it?
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Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul
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@jonathanbfine @weiss_hadas ...any club that would have me as a member.
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@weiss_hadas i would never endorse a book written by an author who would ask someone like me to endorse a book
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publisher: name 3-4 people who'd endorse your book
me: if i asked them to? 😳
lake micah@afrofatalism
there really is no getting around the conclusion that book promotion is one of the more demeaning things we have authors do
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Freud said, "Beauty is useless; & yet, without beauty, life is not worth living."
Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙♀️@SketchesbyBoze
We went from “the humanities are utterly pointless” to “suddenly, no one can read” in the span of about a year.
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Everything under the sun repeats eventually.
That’s why being more devoted to principles and pattern-recognition than ideology and identity helps you avoid repeating history’s mistakes.
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Adorno: ‘tenderness between people is nothing other than an awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose’ ❤️
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
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