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Beautiful Sentences
Image by Philip Hartigan, from Climbing the Crooked Trails Print and Audio Installation I’m teaching a Critical Reading and Writing: Short Stories class this year to a group of engaged and eager...
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Beautiful Sentence #2 ~ Daniel Nathan Terry
“I will / think of the Carolina oak who might just remember / the night we kissed in the first bands of rain /from a hurricane just making landfall.” Daniel Nathan Terry, from the poem “The 8th of May:...
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Beautiful Sentences #3 ~ Kate Chopin
“There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory.” -Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
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Beautiful Sentence #4 ~ Fleda Brown
“They come in airy flotillas / on each stem, little flower- / blimps, propellers / of petals at their back ends, / which makes me aware of how heavy with history / we are, and how alone, thus...
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Beautiful Sentence #5 ~ Gerard Woodward
“This / is the use of trampolines / I will remember, the broken sunlight / Coming through the trees in a strange / Land, and lighting up my rising / And falling children, and their friends, / And the...
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Beautiful Sentence #6 ~ Andrew Holt
Photo from Old Stuff Magazine “They would escape to the swamps with pocket knives in their hands and red grease paint on their faces, feeling as though they had ripped away the surface of the Earth.” –...
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Beautiful Sentence #7 ~ Sylvia Plath
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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Beautiful Sentence #8 ~ President Barack Obama
“You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time – not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideals.”...
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Beautiful Sentence #9 ~ Tennessee Williams
“My grandmother formed quiet but deeply emotional attachments to places and people and would have been happy to stay forever and ever in one rectory, once her bedroom was papered in lemon yellow and...
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Beautiful Sentence #10 ~ Wesley McNair
Photo from Real Edinburgh “…And you, my brother, though I have built the best house I can build for you to stop at last and rest in, you go on running.” -Wesley McNair, “My Brother Running”
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10.10.2014 Journal Prompt
Photo by Tony Ray-Jones October 10, 2014: Her nickname was Sugar.
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Beautiful Sentence #11 ~ Dennis McFadden
“The May sunshine was cold and sterile, contrary to everything God intended May to be, but then everything on the drive to Cranberry, the drive he’d made hundreds of times before, was foreign and...
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Beautiful Sentence #12 ~ Alexandra Kleeman
“Even then I knew: whatever hollow I made in you if I left would heal up like a hole sunk into water, quick as water rushing to fill some passing wound.” – Alexandra Kleeman, “You, Disappearing,”...
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“The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorrow.” – Flannery O’Connor, “Everything That Rises Must Converge.”
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Beautiful Sentence #14 ~ Victor Hugo
“Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief.” – Letter to Edouard Thierry
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Beautiful Sentence #15 ~ Jack Driscoll
“And so go ahead and try following them across the stark, windswept pastures and fields of white moose and deer and coyote, and just see how long before you’re completely turned around out there where...
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Beautiful Sentence #16 – #20 (or Beautiful Paragraph) ~ Ben Tanzer
“We were in the back of the station wagon, and I know you are supposed to keep your eyes closed, because that’s what Joe told me, and possibly a character played by Molly Ringwald, but I didn’t, and I...
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Beautiful Sentences #21 ~ Carson McCullers
“Noises at twilight had a blurred sound, and they lingered: the slam of a screen door down the street, voices of children, the whir of a lawnmower from a yard somewhere.” -Carson McCullers, The Member...
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