August 2012
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The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.
—Franz Wright, from section II of “East Boston, 1996” in God’s Silence (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)
Amazing. Thank you, apoetreflects.
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“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men. One-sixth gravity must be a...”
– E. B. White, July 26, 1969
Also see Carl Sagan echo the same sentiment in 1971.
(via explore-blog)
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“It’s noticing that cracks us open, lets something in.
Shows we’re...”
– Lia Purpura, On Looking: Essays.
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“The fact is that we are living in a time when the decision to be an artist, to...”
– Beth Adams. Courtesy of Whiskey River, the cassandra pages, and via Negativa.
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The poem is not the world. It isn’t even the first page of the world.
But the poem wants to flower, like a flower. It knows that much.
It wants to open itself, like the door of a little temple, so that you might step inside and be cooled and refreshed, and less yourself than part of everything.
—Mary Oliver, section 8 of “Flare” in The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem (Da Capo Press, 2000)
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“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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“Each book is a new book. I’ve never written it before and I have to teach myself...”
– Paul Auster, The Paris Review (via litverve)
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“But I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via litverve)
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“Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. The moment you can do...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Studies In Classic American Literature. With thanks to Whiskey River.
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“You’re waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection and...”
– Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe. Yet another golden fish pulled from the great river.
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“The search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion. With gratitude to the river.
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Permanently
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street. An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty. The Nouns were struck, moved, changed. The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.
Each Sentence says one thing—for example, “Although it was a dark rainy day when the Adjective walked by, I shall remember the pure and sweet expression on her face until the day I perish from...
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“Some people
are uncomfortable
with silences. Not me.
I’ve never cared much...”
– Miranda July (via larmoyante)
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“We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the...”
– William Carlos Williams (via pavorst)
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“You cannot live without establishing an equilibrium between the inner and outer.”
– Paul Auster and other beloved New York writers on the magic of Central Park (via explore-blog)
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“Purity does not lie in separation from but in deeper penetration into the...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“The world is filled, and filled with the Absolute. To see this is to be made...”
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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“Say you could view a time lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving through light, “an infinite storm of beauty.” The beginning is swaddled in mists, blasted by random blinding flashes. Lava pours and cools; seas boil and flood. Clouds materialize and shift; now you can see the earth’s face through only random patches of clarity. The land...
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“…And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Recuerdo”
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“We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to...”
– Michel de Montaigne 