May 2013
1 post
April 2013
5 posts
But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The...
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via rerylikes)
I can’t but believe that all that majesty and all that beauty, those fated and...
– Willa Cather marvels at the majesty of the cosmos in this sole surviving letter to her partner, Edith Lewis (via explore-blog)
March 2013
13 posts
I grow into my death.
My life is small
and getting smaller. The world is...
– Mark Strand, from “My Life” (via proustitute)
explore-blog:
Mental health break: Symmetrees by Oliver Latta.
Complement with Herman Hesse on trees.
February 2013
9 posts
Writing by hand is laborious, and that is why typewriters were invented. But I...
– Mary Gordon on the joy of paper notebooks and writing by hand as a creative catalyst (via explore-blog)
Yes, I agree. To each tool its virtue and its sacrifice. #writing
If they’re meant to be writers, they will write. There’s nothing that can stop...
– Tennessee Williams (via theparisreview)
When the great switch came in women’s lives—when wives and mothers who had...
– Alice Munro, “Axis” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
January 2013
8 posts
Wilson Pickett work haiku
austinkleon:
Watch me work y’all
Don’t let the green grass fool you
In the midnight hour
1 tag
The Overview Effect →
December 2012
11 posts
Speech is one symptom of Affection
– Emily Dickinson, from “[1681]” (via proustitute)
November 2012
16 posts
What if I made you
Hear this with your hands.
– Ben Lerner, from “Mean Free Path“ (via proustitute)