January 2012
“But one kiss levitates above all the others. The
intersection of function and...”
– Jeffrey McDaniels (via freins)
“…like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones…” That’s beautiful.
“I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part with all my...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via ardra-aalavadhaan)
All the more reason to love the man…
“For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to...”
– Mary Oliver
“A novel is not an allegory…. It is the sensual experience of another world. If...”
– Azar Nafisi (via doubledaybooks)
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
– Roland Barthes (via only-the-unloved-hate)
“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer defends the long sentence in today’s LA Times. (via millionsmillions)
God, that’s beautiful.
“She despised the sadness that hung inside her like old lace.”
– Sonya Hartnett, The Ghost’s Child (via lunelait)
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, from “Ars Poetica?” (via bookoasis)
“The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.”
– E.E Cummings (via u-f-0)
