December 2011
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Dec 31st
73 notes
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“Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves, only the things I didn’t do crackle...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Burning the Old Year”
Dec 30th
102 notes
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“Well! and what if she should die some afternoon, Afternoon grey and smoky,...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Portrait of a Lady” (via TSElibot)
Dec 30th
158 notes
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“We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit. They speak not just the language...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, from “XIV,” trans. Stephen Mitchell
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
79 notes
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“Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my...”
– Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (via awritersruminations)
Dec 30th
677 notes
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“Evil is a growing thing It has its own gravity and never answers to its name...”
– Fanny Howe, from “One Night in Balthazar”
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (via whiskey river)
Dec 29th
238 notes
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“Naming the things of this world you begin to own them. Cyclamen. Mustard. I...”
– Shirley Kaufman, from “Drifting”
Dec 29th
76 notes
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“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
131 notes
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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese (via whyhellodear)
Dec 28th
418 notes
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“I wonder if you knew how I watched, how I crowded before the spearsmen— but...”
– H. D., from “Loss“ 
Dec 28th
179 notes
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“What is the water in a lake? A blank page. The ripples are its wrinkles. And...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions II, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
296 notes
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“There is nothing concrete to grasp in looking into the morning sky The...”
– Ed Roberson, “Here”
Dec 28th
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“The night is dark, the waters deep,         Yet soft the billows roll; Alas!...”
– Helen Maria Williams, from “A Song”
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
45 notes
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“We defy augury. There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be...”
– Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act V, sc. ii. (via bellswithin)
Dec 28th
136 notes
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“Love is distinct from desire… Because its aim is not satisfaction, but...”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, trans. John Forrester
Dec 27th
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“The astonishing flowers, seething a blue I could barely see.”
– Mark Doty, from “Days of 1981” in Fire to Fire
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
283 notes
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“If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a...”
– Amy Lowell, “A Lover”
Dec 27th
51 notes
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“It’s dark. You exhale a fist of memory. I love you like weathering wood...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies
Dec 27th
1,219 notes
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Dec 26th
111 notes
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“There is always somebody, when we come together, and the edges of meeting are...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
Dec 26th
184 notes
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“I miss your wingspan miss your hollow bones.”
– Dora Malech, from “Flight, Fight Or”
Dec 26th
180 notes
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Dec 26th
439 notes
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“One day after another— Perfect. They all fit.”
– Robert Creeley, “One Day”
Dec 26th
175 notes
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“I want to know what more I’ve gained by losing.”
– Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Ronald W. Sousa
Dec 26th
169 notes
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“Hands these things that dust in words.”
– Hoa Nguyen (via figmentspot)
Dec 26th
144 notes
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Dec 26th
155 notes
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“crossroad at night— virgin snow reflects the flashing amber light”
– Rafał Zabratyński (via yama-bato)
Dec 26th
76 notes
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“Try finding a sunset through a simple gift of looking west. There can be too...”
– Richard O. Moore, from “d e l e t e, Part 6”
Dec 25th
67 notes
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“The Oracles are dumb;         No voice or hideous hum      Runs through...”
– John Milton, from “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity”
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
121 notes
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via bardsandsages)
Dec 25th
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“The Savior must have been A docile Gentleman— To come so far so cold a Day...”
– Emily Dickinson, “[The Savior must have been…]”
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
550 notes
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“I am present.”
– Paul Goldman, from “For This Morning” (via the-final-sentence)
Dec 24th
139 notes
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“Perhaps not the meaning of time, but the time of meaning, & the fact that...”
– Seth Abramson, from “What I Have”
Dec 24th
253 notes
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Dec 24th
522 notes
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“So a river can exist inside the sea. And the sea will have no reverie inside...”
– Elizabeth Willis, from “Cursive”
Dec 23rd
82 notes
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“This is not my teeming fate, my rind, my rolling ellipsis or valedictory spray...”
– Aaron Shurin, from “Plume” in Citizen
Dec 23rd
49 notes
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Dec 23rd
301 notes
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“The sky was a god-bee that hummed. All the air boomed with that thunder. It was...”
– Luke Davies, from “[In the yellow time of pollen]” (via the-final-sentence)
Dec 22nd
107 notes
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“And if every step taken is a step well-lived but a foot towards death, every...”
– Luke Davies, from “[And if every step taken is a step well-lived]”
Dec 22nd
82 notes
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“Your body that includes everything you have done, you have had done to you and...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Circe/Mud Poems” in Selected Poems, 1965-1975
Dec 22nd
255 notes
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Dec 21st
147 notes