"Trump cannot govern; Republicans will not govern. The public suffers as a result."
--Jennifer Rubin, "The Contrarian", 26 March 2026
#CommonplaceBook
(NB: Rubin uses "cannot" in the traditional sense of "does not have the ability", versus the more recent sense of "must not be allowed to", even...
A quote from Edith Hall against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'In the eyes of many scholars, the scene of diving is a metaphor for dying, for the leap between the known and the unknown worlds ... What metaphor has ever attained such erotic sensuality? What longing for the beyond has ever been graced with such erotic presence?.' – Edith Hall, The Naked and the Dead. Lit Review 547' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Edith Hall, The Naked and the Dead. Lit Review 547
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I promise I will be using this phrase from now on.
SO useful!
#CommonplaceBook
A quote from Louise Glück against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'Once a poem is resolved, I lose the sense of having written it.' – Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
"I'm not going to be the smartest guy in any room I walk into."
--Sen MarkWayne Mullin, during confirmation hearing to become next Secretary of DHS [USA], 19 March 2026
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ok, kiddos, we bit the bullet and are gonna try out common placing... here's some random shit I added last night, including a quote from that @timothyliupoet.bsky.social poem I posted about yesterday ❤️ #commonplacebook #quotes #analog
-- Gregory Benford, "Foundation's Fear" (2009)
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It can--and should--be said many ways and this is definitely one of them.
#CommonplaceBook #VotingRights
A quote from Jorge Luis Borges against a light teal background. The text reads: 'A poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song'. – Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Divine Comedy'' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Divine Comedy’
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook
Still enjoying my return to journalling this year✍️Somewhere between a sketchbook, scrapbook, and commonplace book, it's 2026 in a nutshell.
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#hobonichi #commonplacebook #journalling
A quote from Gwen John against a light teal background. The text reads: 'Resolution to try and write a few lines every day. Give a survey of your mind from time to time – it's current and rhythm'. – Gwen John, unbound notebooks' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Gwen John, unbound notebooks
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A quote from Louise Glück against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'The future is not assured; that is its drama. It can show itself in two shapes: as ongoing reality or as a new world'. – Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories
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How the US will "win" that not-a-war with Iran:
“What the president means [by "unconditional surrender"] is that when he as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces determines that Iran no longer poses a threat to the United States of America and ..."
#CommonplaceBook
"I have usernames older than you."
--username 'corporateash'; no date given, so: "timeless"
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"[T]he claim that low taxes lead to rapid economic growth has been more thoroughly tested in practice than any other proposition in economics, and has failed every time."
--Paul Krugman, 5 March 2026 [2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]
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A quote from TS Eliot against a light teal background. The text reads: 'Whether one is a prolific writer or not, the question whether one is a writer at all is one which constantly asks itself and I think ought to go on asking itself ... At any rate I have never got rid of it myself and it attacks me from time to time most unexpectedly.'. – TS Eliot, letter to Henry Treece, 9 Sept 1943' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– TS Eliot, letter to Henry Treece, 8 Sept 1943
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
A quote from Henry Moore against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'There is a right physical size for everything'. – Henry Moore, ‘The Sculptor Speaks’. The Listener 18 Aug 1937. Reproduced on tate.org' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Henry Moore, ‘The Sculptor Speaks’. The Listener 18 Aug 1937. Reproduced on tate.org
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
A blue glittery notebook with golden constellations on it and a golden clasp. It reads: “We create our fate every day we live.”
A notebook page. It reads “Moses’ Commonplace Book” in a handwritten font.
Another notebook page, entitled “SUCCESS” by a gouache painted piece of torn paper stuck to the spread.
Follow up on my commonplace book journey-I did my first entry today!
Full entry is in my Discord group! I’ll be editing together a video of the process later today!
#art #journal #commonplacebook
A quote from Louise Glück against a light teal background. The text reads: 'The artist's task, then, involves the transformation of the actual to the true'. – Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories. northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Louise Glück, Proofs and Theories
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
A quote from August Strindberg against a dark teal background. The text reads: 'I’ve been told that the Malays drill holes in the bamboo stalks that grow in their forests. When the window blows, they lie on the ground to listen to the symphonies produced by these gigantic Aeolian harps. The strange thing is that each listener hears a unique tune and a unique harmony, all according to the whim of the wind'. –August Strindberg, 'On Chance in Artistic Creation' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– August Strindberg, 'On Chance in Artistic Creation'
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
In another context, HCRichardson wrote this very useful short gloss on what "liberal democracy" implies for its citizens:
"...liberal democracy, in which the state enables individuals to determine their own fate."
This is very aligned with Lincoln's views on government,.
#CommonplaceBook
“All the mergers approved under the Trump administration need to be undone. Big business has to understand there are consequences when they team up with corrupt government.”
--Sen Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), quoted below
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A quote from Douglas Stewart against a light teal background. The text reads: 'I am to break into the conversation / With a word that feels like snow to say'. –Douglas Stewart, The Fire on the Snow' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Douglas Stewart, The Fire on the Snow
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
" [L]ots of people think they need to get better at writing, but nobody thinks they need to get better at thinking, and this is why they don’t get better at writing."
--Adam Mastroianni, 29 Apr 2025, in "28 slightly rude notes on writing"
[Tarantulas are mentioned in note #6.]
#CommonplaceBook
In this sepia-toned, B&W photo, the author, and old man in a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie, leans on a cane near a stone wall that has, just over his left shoulder, a classical bust carved into it. A facsimile of his signature appears at bottom right.
"I think of myself as a poet, though none of my friends do."
--Jorge Luis Borges, 9 April 1976, following a lecture he gave [in English] at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee [transcript and notes in link]
#CommonplaceBook #Poetry #Poet #Borges
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Epstein-class decorum:
[To: Rep. Jamie Raskin]
"You don't tell me anything, you washed-up, loser lawyer!"
--"Attorney General" Pam Bondi, Congressional "testimony", 12 Feb 2026
#EpsteinClass #CommonplaceBook
A quote from Louise Glück against a light teal background. The text reads: 'We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. –Louise Glück, Nostos' northseapoets.com. The North Sea Poets logo is in the bottom right corner.
– Louise Glück, Nostos
#NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetrySky
“The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”
--Rep Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), 9 Feb 2026
#CommonplaceBook
Why is this not also happening in the US?
It needs to be happening. It's past time for the Accountability Express to pull out of the station.
"In Europe the revelation that a leader had ties to Epstein has abruptly ended careers. "
--HCRichardson, 11 Feb 2026 [link below]
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"Word has reached me that you are having fun on the set. This must stop!"
--Jack Warner, producer, during production of "The Big Sleep", in a 1945 memo to the cast
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