October 2011
37 posts
“That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few,...”
– Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
“Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you’d...”
– Tom Waits (Thank you, buffleheadcabin & nedhepburn)
“The Road to Xanadu, along with Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence, is...”
– Toby Litt, ‘Book of a Lifetime: The Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes’, The Independent, 29 February 2008.
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“soles occidere et redire possunt;
nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux,
nox est...”
– Catullus V
“There are times that walk from you like some passing afternoon
Summer warmed...”
– ‘Passing Afternoon’ - Iron & Wine
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“Short Ode to Morningside Heights
Convergence of worlds, old stomping ground,...”
– Rachel Wetzsteon
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of...”
– Robert Frost, ‘Fire and Ice’
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“Music: the breathing of statues. Perhaps:
the silence of paintings. Language...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “On Music,” 1918, trans. Robert Bly (Thank you, proustitute)
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“From the old stone
The carven words reproach me,
Beside the rows of quiet...”
– The Wonder of the World
Thank you, crashinglybeautiful
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