December 2011
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“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via askios)
“That’s not a diamond, it’s salt.
That’s not the sky but it’s not your fault.”
– Dean Young, from “Handy Guide” (Poetry, November 2011)
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“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every...”
– Elie Wiesel, The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code (via selfinspiration)
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“What we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for...”
– Christopher Hitchens
(h/t @kateopolis)
“You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...”
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the...”
– Carl Sagan (via theproofoflife)
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“Be ignited, or be gone.”
– Mary Oliver, from “What I Have Learned So Far” (via the-final-sentence)
“He wasn’t obtrusive about his heart. You wouldn’t have known he had one. He only...”
– Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (via leopoldgursky)
“Perhaps not the meaning of time,
but the time of meaning, & the fact that...”
– Seth Abramson, from “What I Have” (via proustitute)
“Recordar: To remember; from the Latin re-cordis, to pass back through the heart.”
– Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces (via leopoldgursky)
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“There were too many nuns in it.”
– Christopher Plummer, who played Captain von Trapp, on “The Sound of Music.” (via washingtonpoststyle)
“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection....”
– E. M. Cioran, from The Book of Delusions (via proustitute)
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The Penguin Press: A Collection of Rejected Titles... →
thepenguinpress:
When Jane Austen’s father submitted an early version of her second novel, First Impressions, to a publisher on her behalf, it was rejected. As Pride and Prejudice, it did much better. [via]
Don DeLillo wanted to name his 1985 breakout novel Panasonic, but the corporation’s lawyers…
“I consider poets to be a part of a larger group of people who don’t have to...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 83, Billy Collins (via leopoldgursky)
“But use the hum
of your wound
and flamepit out everything
right to the edge...”
– Anne Carson, from “First Chaldaic Oracle” in Men in the Off Hours (via proustitute)
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“With an apple I want to astonish Paris.”
– Cézanne (via leopoldgursky)
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Iceland Photo Archive: It's beginning to look a... →
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A photo of Austurstræti, one of Reykjavík’s oldest streets, taken at Christmas in the mid- to late 1950s. The cars on the right are parked where the Hótel Ísland used to stand. When it opened in 1882 it was only the fifth hotel ever built in Reykjavík. (The first one opened in 1853 and closed…
