May 2013
3 posts
April 2013
21 posts
“I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via ingeniosa)
BALADING
“Once more the house and I are alone.”
– May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude (via the-final-sentence)
god’s got nice tiles
“I’m not a poet. I’m a person far out at sea, and the poem is a raft made of whatever floats past in the water. Those almost accidental rescuing pieces are words, rhythms, musics, ideas, the memory that is mine and the memory that is all of ours and the memory that is held in language itself.”
—Jane Hirshfield, in an interview with Kim Rosen
March 2013
31 posts
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
– Rumi (via larmoyante)
“Say to yourself, I am going to work in order to see myself and free myself....”
– Agnes Martin (via artemariposa)
adomania
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fantastical names like ‘2013’ are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally knows the...
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“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
– William Butler Yeats (via fernbeds)
“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (via theunquotables)
“…love and translation share some contradictions, including selfishness and...”
– Barbara Berman reviews The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault over at The Rumpus. (via therumpus) 