October 2011
“I cried until I was not even aware when I was crying and when I was not, cried...”
– Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That” (Slouching Towards Bethlehem)
“… a failure can be a figure, can signify. Maybe poetry can fail better than...”
– The Believer - Interview with Ben Lerner (via leopoldgursky)
Les Mots Justes: The time of minor poets is... →
lesmotsjustes:
The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps one or two good friends gathered after dinner over a jug of fierce red wine… While the children are falling asleep and complaining about the noise…
“لا أستطيع أن أصدق أن للأمهات قلبًا واحدًا فقط
كيف يمكن لكل هذا القدر من الحب...”
– Sultan Al Harbi
(via sultanalharbi)
“I’ve always had this sense that the unexamined fact is like a rattlesnake. It’s...”
– Joan Didion (via proustitute)
“First forgive the silence
That answers prayer,
Then forgive the prayer...”
– Mark Jarman, Five Psalms (via human-voices)
“We didn’t need a story, we didn’t need a real world
We just had to keep walking...”
– Anthony Gonzalez, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (via human-voices)
“The landscape of the Peloponnesus had been injured and healed so many times,...”
– Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (via growing-orbits)
“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I’m not anxious, I’m lonely. And I’m...”
– Dry by Augusten Burroughs (via la-fille-curieuse)
“We can tell our children that school is important until we’re blue in the face,...”
– Why I’m raising my son to be a nerd - CNN.com (via whimpernotbang)
“You made a ceremony out of holding your head in your hands because, you said, it...”
– Rosmarie Waldrop (via human-voices)
"You are pooped and demoralized. Why wouldn't you...
michaelmarie:
-Kurt Vonnegut
“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,” I said, “but no good reason ever...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. I am not afraid, but the...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (via summerincslewis)
“But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want....”
– D.H. Lawrence (via suzywire)
“I daydream, thinking about great songwriters. I was brought up with all these...”
– Jeff Buckley (via moodswingwhiskey)
“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in...”
– P. D. James (via dondante)
