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"The State Of The World Calls Out For Poetry" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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* You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. ― Kurt Vonnegut Photo: Chicago Loop. 2024

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* Mute shadows creeping slow Mark how the hours go. Every stone is mouldering slow. And the least winds that blow Some minutest atom shake, Some fretting ruin make In roof and walls. How black it is Beneath these thick boughed trees! ⁃ Walter de la Mare Michigan Avenue, Chicago

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* . . . (t)hen suddenly you’re left all alone with your body that can’t love you and your will that can’t save you. — Rainer Maria Rilke Photo: Bridgeport, Chicago. 2024

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* I can’t promise to be calm, dignified, and indifferent, like a rock by the sea… If my heart’s going to break, let it break from anger, grief, or joy. — Nâzım Hikmet Photo: Printer’s Row, Chicago. September 2024

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* Suddenly the limpid stupor of the immensity towers above the debris * And the man bent over the water surprised by the sun discovers a shadow Wafting in pieces and gently floating away - Giuseppe Ungaretti Photo: Chicago. 2024

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* there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. — Raymond Carver Photo: Chicago. 2024

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* Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on . . . I’ll go on. - Samuel Beckett, 'The Unnamable.' Photo: Chicago Skyway. October 2024

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* Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity - Henry Van Dyke Photo: Art Institute of Chicago. 2024

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* Days just wave goodbye as they ride in tonight And then they’re gone, gone, gone - Smoking Popes Photo: Roosevelt Road, Chicago. 2024

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* But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go. ― Denise Levertov Photo: Chicago Marathon. October 2024

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* What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in your hand Ah, what then? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge State Street Chicago. 2024

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* A summer without passion our selves pulled together like the leaves surrounding the branches each branch part of the tree the tree round, holding its own in the air. The music begins round globes of sound weld it together - Ann Stanford, ‘Holding Our Own’ Chicago Loop. 2024

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* Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream. — Ernest Dowson Photo: Wells Street Bridge, Chicago. October 2024

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* We are never alone We are all wolves Howling to the same moon. — Atticus Photo: Berwyn, Illinois. October 2024

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* At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea, The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights Her stove, and lays out food in tins. - T.S. Eliot, ‘The Waste Land’ Photo: Chinatown, Chicago. October 2024

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* May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, as it has come for me now, when the woods are black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I do, by looking up at the sky. — Marcel Proust Chicago. 2024

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* One day you will be nostalgic for today. ― Lang Leav, ‘Lullabies’ Photo: Navy Pier, Chicago. October 2024

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* Come closer Shut softly your watery eyes The pangs of your sadness Shall pass as your senses will rise For the flowers of the city Though breathlike Get deathlike at times - Bob Dylan, ‘Ramona’ Photo: Wicker Park, Chicago. October 2024

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* Don’t run, go slowly, It is only to yourself that you have to go! Go slowly, don’t run, For the child of yourself, just born and eternal Cannot follow you. — Juan Ramón Jiménez Photo: Navy Pier, Chicago. September 2024

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* evening’s wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars. Winds take a pensive tone, and stars a tender fire, And visions rise, and change, that kill me with desire. — Emily Brontë Photo: Promontory Point, Chicago. October 2024

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