April 2010
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“And it is just the same in every hotel, in every house, in every town. For in...”
– Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams
Poetry 365: Wild Geese, Mary Oliver (for 4/26) →
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun…
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Herman Hesse
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Poetry 365: Love Letter, Sylvia Plath (for 4/19) →
Not easy to state the change you made. If I’m alive now, then I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it, Staying put according to habit. You didn’t just toe me an inch, no— Nor leave me to set my small bald eye Skyward again, without hope, of course, Of apprehending blueness, or…
This is probably the first Plath poem I ever read.
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“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary...”
– Diane Ackerman (via elicec) (via quote-book)
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“Her mind lives in a quiet room,
A narrow room, and tall,
With pretty lamps to...”
– Dorothy Parker - Interior (via ireadintothings) (via quote-book)
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Poetry 365: Waking, 2:34, David Wojahn →
To your lamp still burning, book dropped to the bedcover.
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Under the ceiling dan, the pages breathe & flutter
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& I mark your place with my best guesswork, switch
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the lamp off & grope my way down the hallway to piss.
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Countless are the verses of insomnia & panic:
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Larkin, Lowell,…
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“Do you realize how simple a desire is? Sleeping is a desire. Walking is a...”
– ~ Gilles Deleuze
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“Can one dismiss either being, or becoming, as an illusion? Becoming without...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
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“Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give...”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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“Eighty percent of the human body is made of water, so it isn’t surprising...”
– Yoko Tawada, Where Europe Begins
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“yonder deadfromtheneckup graduate of a
somewhat obscure to be sure university...”
– (via eecummings) (via quote-book)
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles,” 1992 (commonly misattributed to Nelson Mandela, 1994 inauguration speech) Submitted by: Jettes (via quote-book)
