February 2012
20 posts
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I was in the darkness; I could not see my words Nor the wishes of my heart. Then suddenly there was a great light —
“Let me into the darkness again.”
- Stephen Crane
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Robert Frost, "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy...
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and...
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“I would sit at my mother’s feet watching her drink coffee and smoke cigarettes...”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via bibliophibious)
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Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch. You aren’t...
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“But life is not all eloquence and adulation: life is wiping the baby’s bum; it...”
– William Gass, “Emerson and the Essay” (via invisiblestories)
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“The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we...”
– The World I Live In, Helen Keller
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“Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.”
– The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
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“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by...”
– The Razor’s Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
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“Over beyond the moon there,
I loved a love once,
And, may be, more times…”
– Ezra Pound, from “Au Jardin” (via proustitute)
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I'm writing a Senior Thesis for my Undergrad. →
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!
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Nothing Twice- Wisława Szymborska
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Even if there is no one dumber, if you’re the planet’s biggest dunce, you can’t repeat the class in summer: this course is only offered once. No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with...
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RIP Wisława Szymborska
2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012
In 1996 she won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her poetry.
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