June 2012
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“The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely,...”
– Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook (via litverve)
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“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
—John Steinbeck, from Of Mice and Men (Covici Friede, 1937)
Thank you, apoetreflects.
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“Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.”
– Eckhart Tolle (via emotional-algebra)
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A Poet Reflects: “Have you ever heard..." →
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re...
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“There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.”
– Thaddeus Golas (via bodhisattvaquotes)
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“I would say the cultivation of silence is indispensable to being human. People...”
– How Silence Works: Emailed Conversations With Four Trappist Monks | The Awl (via silencesounds)
Amazing article.
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“The world was so new that many things still lacked names, and to mention them,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Harper & Row, 1970. (via amiquote)
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“Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via larmoyante)
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“Humanity, I love you
because you are perpetually
putting the secret of life...”
– E.E. Cummings, “Humanity, I Love You” (via larmoyante)
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“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it...”
– Henry Miller (via larmoyante)
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“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave...”
– William S. Burroughs (via socialistscum)
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“If in our moments of happiness, mastery, ecstasy, we say Yes to heaven and to...”
– Czeslaw Milosz. From Whiskey River.
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“I remember (spooky) when all of a sudden someone you know very well becomes...”
– Joe Brainard, from I Remember in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, (Penguin Books, 2012)
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“I remember they way a baby’s hand has a way of folding itself around your...”
– Joe Brainard, I Remember from The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, (Penguin Books, 2012)
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“I remember having a friend overnight, and lots of giggling after the lights were...”
– Joe Brainard, from I Remember in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, (Penguin Books, 2012)
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“I remember rocks you pick up outside that, once inside, you wonder why.”
– Joe Brainard, from I Remember in The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard, (Penguin Books, 2012)
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“I remember thinking about breathing, and then your head takes over the effort of...”
– Joe Brainard, I Remember from The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (Penguin Books, 2012)
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“WENDELL BERRY: In this difficult time of failed public expectations, when...”
– Excerpt from What Are People For? Copyright © 2010 by Wendell Berry
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How To Be a Poet
By WENDELL BERRY (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity. Any readers who like your poems, doubt their judgment. ii Breathe with unconditional breath the...
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“The wind is the moon’s imagination wandering.”
—Saul Williams
Thank you, apoetreflects.
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Remember now that place between the dock and boat that, sometimes, drifting out against its rope, opened a green and holy place before the boat beat back. But for that moment, green.
—Deborah Digges, from The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)
Thank you, apoetreflects.
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“Most people insist on some idea. Recently the younger generation talks about...”
– Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
(via skunkbuds)
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“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of...”
– Adyashanti
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“Now, only a gray-white light filled my awareness: but that is a metaphor, for I...”
– Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships (Thank you, johnsparker)
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“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love - a connection...”
– Mary Ruefle, courtesy of Whiskey River.
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“Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten....”
– Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity (via larmoyante)
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kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
Yep. Thank you, larmoyante.
