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The outlaws of poetry and the written word.

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“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”

― Lao Tzu

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“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.” ― Lao Tzu poeticoutlaws.substack.com/p/creative-qui…
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Edgar Allan Poe - born on this day in 1809.

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of…

Edgar Allan Poe - born on this day in 1809. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of…
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'The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.'

- Chuang Tzu

'The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.' - Chuang Tzu
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“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

~ Anton Chekhov

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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'In a nation of sex-obsessed saints and greedy selfish liberals, in a nation approaching a racial chasm grounded on growing poverty and a rampant lack of compassion, there seems to be a deep need to determine if someone else's thoughts are proper rather than well stated, or true,…

'In a nation of sex-obsessed saints and greedy selfish liberals, in a nation approaching a racial chasm grounded on growing poverty and a rampant lack of compassion, there seems to be a deep need to determine if someone else's thoughts are proper rather than well stated, or true,…
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Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.
~ Mark Twain

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right. ~ Mark Twain
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“He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn’t paint me anymore.”

― Jane Birkin

“He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn’t paint me anymore.” ― Jane Birkin
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'Our culture’s indifference to the past—which easily shades over into active hostility and rejection—furnishes the most telling proof of that culture’s bankruptcy.

The prevailing attitude, so cheerful and forward-looking on the surface, derives from a narcissistic…

'Our culture’s indifference to the past—which easily shades over into active hostility and rejection—furnishes the most telling proof of that culture’s bankruptcy. The prevailing attitude, so cheerful and forward-looking on the surface, derives from a narcissistic…
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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

― Sylvia Plath

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” ― Sylvia Plath
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It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to…

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to…
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'I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast. For me, that week in Chicago was far worse than the worst bad acid trip I'd even heard rumors about. It permanently altered my brain chemistry…'

~ Hunter S. Thompson

'I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a raving beast. For me, that week in Chicago was far worse than the worst bad acid trip I'd even heard rumors about. It permanently altered my brain chemistry…' ~ Hunter S. Thompson
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“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

― Carl Jung

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, 'There is something not right,' no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.” ― Carl Jung
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'I discovered the works of Bowden later in life, shortly after he died of a sudden illness in 2014 at the age of 69.

I can’t remember how I found him but as soon as I read the first few lines of one of his books, I knew I was reading one of the most fierce writers of our…

'I discovered the works of Bowden later in life, shortly after he died of a sudden illness in 2014 at the age of 69. I can’t remember how I found him but as soon as I read the first few lines of one of his books, I knew I was reading one of the most fierce writers of our…
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“My life has been spent inside a culture of constant war and of vast slaughter of the beasts of the field and the grasses and forests of the land and of the fish in the sea and of the blue sky I was born under at the tail end of one of those wars.

I am of that culture and yet I…

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