128 ratings (3.91 avg)
16 reviews

Jeff Glovsky

Add friend

http://jeffglovsky.com

https://www.goodreads.com/jeffglovsky

Jeff’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (5)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (135)

shelved-read-later‎ (3)

Stats | More…

Jeff’s Quotes

“What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.”
― Alain de Botton

68 likes

“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace”
― Vincent Van Gogh

63 likes

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood

tags: imitation, influence, inspiration

128 likes

“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: literature, philosophy, style, truth, writing

9 likes

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
― James Salter, Burning the Days: Recollection

597 likes

More of Jeff’s quotes…

Books, Blogs, Authors and More — 3717 members — last activity Jan 28, 2026 09:12AM
Need a place to advertise your blog? You can do that here. Need a place to advertise your book? You can do that here. Need a place to discuss books? Y ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22558 members — last activity Feb 16, 2026 08:36PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Goodreads Authors/Readers — 56133 members — last activity 1 hour, 21 min ago
This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more

Unsere Herzblut Challenge — 673 members — last activity Jun 20, 2015 12:13PM
Wir sind eine kleine Gruppe von neuen und alten Buchhasen die sich über die Lesechallenge austauschen. Was ist denn eine Lesechallenge???http://www. ...more

Deutsch — 1312 members — last activity Jan 31, 2026 09:07AM
Deutsche, Germans Aber auch sonstige deutsch lesende Menschen wie Österreicher oder Schweizer. Halt alle, die auch auf deutsch lesen.

More of Jeff’s groups…