December 2011
Dec 31st
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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” (via proustitute)
Dec 30th
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“Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my...”
– Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Dec 30th
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“How well I know that rapture that comes sometimes when one is alone. I think...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 27 December 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.”
– Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
Dec 27th
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“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via weelittleactress)
Dec 26th
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“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root; It is what you...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Elm”
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 22nd
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“Widow, the compassionate trees bend in, The trees of loneliness, the trees of...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Widow”
Dec 21st
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“Winter is for women— The woman, still at her knitting, At the cradle of...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Wintering”
Dec 20th
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“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
Dec 19th
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“So we turn back through the forest, walk among trees with long blue needles....”
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “Molokai” in The Great Enigma, trans. Robin Fulton (via proustitute)
Dec 19th
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“We’re suspended for a moment on this spinning blue pearl, here together...”
– Maria Bustillos, Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library
Dec 18th
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“How easily our loved ones leave us, speeding into sunsets, maiming us with...”
– Larissa Szporluk, from “Sea Lettuce” (via ahuntersheart)
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“She did not want to go to work, although she was very late; and so she remained...”
–  James Alan McPherson, Hue and Cry (via underthechinaberrytree)
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Even a map cannot show you the way back to a place that no longer exists.”
– Sandra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970” (via risky wiver)
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“Earth dropped on the coffin; three pebbles fell on the hard shiny surface; and...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Years
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down....”
– James Fenton, from “A German Requiem”
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Listenacandleandawick: Angelica Garnett talks about...
Dec 12th
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drowned-in-the-inkwell asked: hey! first of all I'd like to mention that I enjoy your blog a lot :> and second, what are your favorite books? or what books would you recommend?
Dec 12th
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“Still you are here, as silence gathers like birds in the trees around you. You...”
– Leon Weinmann, from “Broken Ground”
Dec 11th
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“In the end, everything is found to be wanting.”
– Frank Lentricchia, The Sadness of Antonioni
Dec 10th
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“At least I have the flowers of myself, and my thoughts, no god can take that;...”
– H.D., from “Eurydice”
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“What will survive of us is love.”
– Philip Larkin, from “An Arundel Tomb”
Dec 7th
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“It is hard in the radiance of this world to live but we live.”
– Campbell McGrath, from “Storm Valediction”
Dec 6th
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“Death is nature’s way of telling you to be quiet. Of saying it’s...”
– Franz Wright, “Translation”
Dec 5th
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“It is very cold walking into the long scraped April wind. At this time of year...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”
Dec 5th
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“I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish” in Dream Work (via proustitute)
Dec 4th
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“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
– William Faulkner, from The Wild Palms
Dec 4th
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“I stand on the threshold under the street lamp, one side of my body covered...”
– Sarah Stern, from “The Owl” (via proustitute)
Dec 4th
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“First you hear the words and they are like all other words, ordinary,...”
– Ruth Stone, from “The Wound” (via proustitute)
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd
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“Let all be simple. Let all stand still Without a final direction. That which...”
– Charles Simic, from “Evening”
Dec 3rd
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“There is almost nothing that does not signal loneliness, then loveliness, then...”
– Stanley Plumly, from “In Passing” (via proustitute)
Dec 3rd
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“The dreamer isn’t lonely. Not when, like van Gogh, he has reached that...”
– H.D., Vincent Van Gogh 
Dec 1st
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