June 2010
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“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the...”
– Stephen King (On Writing)
If you’ve taken an english course at some point in your life (and we all have) you have probably heard the teacher criticize the use of adverbs. Stephen King agrees with these teachers. This line just made me laugh. There’s been many moments in this memoir...
May 2010
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful,
ready...”
– Gaston Bachelard (via lovetrinkets)
everybreathwedrew asked: I'd just like to let you know how thrilled I am to have found this tumblr.
Also, I'd like to thank you for posting Resignation by Nikki Giovanni. I'd never read it before. I cried the first time through, then read it 3 times more.
Also, I'd like to thank you for posting Resignation by Nikki Giovanni. I'd never read it before. I cried the first time through, then read it 3 times more.
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“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness,...”
– Stephen King (On Writing)
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O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d; Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid...
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A Noiseless, Patient Spider by Walt Whitman
A NOISELESS, patient spider, I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it stood, isolated; Mark’d how, to explore the vacant, vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself; Ever unreeling them—ever tirelessly speeding them. And you, O my Soul, where you stand, Surrounded, surrounded, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing,...
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A Poem of Friendship by Nikki Giovanni
We are not lovers because of the love we make but the love we have
We are not friends because of the laughs we spend but the tears we save
I don’t want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak
I will never miss you because of what we do but what we are together
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Resignation by Nikki Giovanni
I love you because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into spring and the air clears after a storm because only my love for you despite the charms of gravity keeps me from falling off the Earth into another dimension I love you because it is the natural order of things I love you like...
Chawton House Library: Library and early women's... →
litmusings:
Novels-On-Line is an ongoing project making freely accessible full-text transcripts of some of the rarest works in the Chawton House Library collection. These texts, which explore such broad-ranging themes as satire, slavery, marriage, witchcraft and piracy, signal the rich texture and innovative character of women’s writing in the period 1600 to 1830. In bringing these little-known...
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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via notwritenow)
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Vladimir Nabokov Hunts Butterflies →
Nineteen photos on Life.com of Vladimir Nabokov engaging in one of his favorite activities.
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The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down, who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now...
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Explore Items from Bright Star →
This link goes to a website that lets you explore some of the set design and items used in the film Bright Star, from a goodnight note to the furniture in a writing room and so much more. It really is fascinating for any of you who like a behind-the-scenes look at movies.
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“M is right about me: ‘All things are glorious, only not for me, and rightly so.’...”
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Franz Kafka, Diaries (1922)
I think I might be a little bit in love with what a dramatic whore he is. It is a glorious thing. I quote from another entry: “Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing...
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