January 2012
60 posts
“The din of the dusty world and the locked-in-ness of human habitation are what...”
– Kuo Hsi, Essay on Landscape Painting, 11thC.
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via flesh-of-burning-love)
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via silencedyouth)
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“Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too...”
– William Shakespeare, Sonnet 86
“During the heavy months my life caught fire only when
I made love with you....”
– Tomas Tranströmer, ‘Fire Script’, The Half-Finished Heaven, trans. Robert Bly.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett (via adrianoesteves)
“Every person is a half-open door / leading to a room for everyone.”
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Half-Finished Heaven” (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Imagination must dance, must be carried beyond feeling into the aboriginal ice.”
– Yeats, ‘A General Introduction for my Work’ (1937).
