August 2012
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“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the...”
– Ann Patchett
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“The conclusion is to live
for oneself
because all the rest can’t reach you
...”
– Isabel Cadenas Cañón, from “To Leave” (translated by Kenneth Heaton and Margarita Larios)
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“I will try to live on earth without you.
I will try to live on earth without...”
– Polina Barskova, from “During the Fire of Moscow” (translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky)
“What is it about us human beings that we can’t let go of lost things?”
– Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge
“You picture your mother as a tree
– somehow that makes it easier.
A silver...”
– Shazea Quraishi, “Still Light”
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“Water, you are a lace wedding-gown
I slip over my head, giving birth to my...”
– Pascale Petit, from “What The Water Gave Me (VI)”
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“Sometimes I worry I will die before I will write the books I feel compelled to...”
– Kate Zambreno, “Pussy Riot”
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“I consider myself a success story. Because I am alive I mean, and because I...”
– Lidia Yuknavitch, “Explicit Violence“ (via songbookhayashi)
“I arrange my memory in readiness for the grave,
Put spices in her shroud and...”
– Máire Mhac an tSaoi, “One Year After” (translated by Louis de Paor)
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“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen....”
– Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins)
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“There are rooms I won’t enter, at whose threshold I say
this is as far as I...”
– Timothy Donnelly, from “Globus Hystericus” (via proustitute)
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“(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of...”
– Mary Oliver, “The Uses of Sorrow” (via oofpoetry)
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“Kafka said, A book
must be an axe
for the frozen sea
inside us, which sounds...”
– Matt Rasmussen, from “Elegy in X Parts” (via proustitute)
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sincerelyexistential-deactivate asked: As an amateur poet, I'm wondering who are some of your influences as a writer?
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“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all...”
– John Williams, Stoner
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“My hours are married to shadow.”
– Sylvia Plath, from “The Colossus”
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“Remind the fallen fruit
Of its leaves and branches,
Remind the sharp thorns...”
– Yehuda Amichai, from “Anniversaries of War” (translated by Benjamin Garshav and Barbara Harshav)
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“Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of...”
– Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (translated by Ronald W. Sousa)
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“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that?...”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay”
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“We walked on the river bank in a cold wind, under a grey sky. Both agreed that...”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 10 November 1917
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“As I walked I looked at the dark basalt hills, and at the cactus and shrubs and...”
– Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge
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“After they all leave,
I remain alone with the poems,
some poems of mine, some...”
– Dahlia Ravikovitch, from “Surely You Remember” (translated by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch)
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“Whatever I touch crumbles to pieces.”
– Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins) 