February 2012
110 posts
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“We’ll plug along on it for two or three years, and maybe we’ll get...”
– Sinclair Lewis, from Arrowsmith (thanks, rachellovesmosteverything)
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“And, feeling better, fixed herself at last a cup of black, hot coffee.”
– Philip K. Dick, from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (thank you, flooffee)
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“We spoke all night in tongues,
in fingertips, in teeth.”
–
Robert Hass, from “Spring”
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“[There is accumulation. There is responsibility. And beyond these, there is...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending (thank you, pagethreeninetyfour)
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“When Rosa and Joe picked it up they saw that Sammy had taken a pen and, bearing...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (thank you, platypusnoise)
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“[I return to this moment again and again because it always makes me weep.] And...”
– Scott Smith, A Simple Plan
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“When we belong to the world
we become what we are.”
– Anne Stevenson, from “Poem for a Daughter”
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“Then the music takes us, the music rolls away the years, and we dance.”
– Stephen King, 11.22.63 (thank you, jonscofer)
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“I wish I had a drum big enough to tell the whole world how happy I am!”
– Anne McCaffrey, Dragondrums (thank you, jdjumper)
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“[Because people will look up to it’s trail when it falls down. They...”
– Douglas Coupland, All families are psychotic (thank you, mustacherides666)
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“[What is the carol for that?
Is it the song of nevertheless,
or of the empire...”
– Jack Gilbert, from “What Song Should We Sing”
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“Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth
like a mermaid of the soil,...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, from “The Archipelago of Kisses” (with thanks to passade and fleurishes)
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“Let’s not wait for an ending.”
– Mikael de Lara Co, from “Poem That Had Some Difficulty With the First Line” (via ahuntersheart)
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“Until it was nothing more than a gray paper moon, hanging in the sky.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (thank you, oliversarmada)
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“[I read Vida’s message out loud, and we sat with that for a beat or two....”
– Catherine Ryan Hyde, Second Hand Heart (thank you, daisystrange)
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“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and...”
– Albert Goldbarth, from “The Sciences Sing a Lullabye” (via Sharing Poetry)
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“Perhaps the memory of the reek of Maur’s despair made her a little...”
– Robin McKinley, The Hero and the Crown (thank you, pumbled)
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“Your blood is famous in your heart.”
– Carol Ann Duffy, from “Gesture”
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“The Seller closed his door and watched as the Collector walked on down the...”
– William Kotzwinkle, The Curio Shop (thank you, inspiretherain)
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“I become
just a breath mark across dark glass.”
– Judith Beveridge, from “At the End of the Day”
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“[Tatie was dead. There was nothing Paul could possibly do for me except let me...”
– Paula McLain, The Paris Wife (thank you, pinkcloudpaper)
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“[I do, Augustus.]
I do.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (thank you, to-seekagreatperhaps)
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“[this is a sacred story.]
I write down a line
that turns into two
...”
– Hali Sofala, from “Mamalu”
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“Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Bone”
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“He feels empty, and he stares without interest at the tiny black speck and the...”
– Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams (thank you, starcrossedliar)
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“[A miracle, just take a look around:
the world is everywhere.]
An additional...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “A Miracle”
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“He lays on the bed in a state of coma, too feelingless to sit up or think. The...”
– Ahmed Ali, Twilight in Delhi (thank you, aurora4781)
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“We are truly meant to be here.”
– Paul Davies, The Mind of God (thank you, disassociate)
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“So call the field to rest, and let’s away
To part the glories of this happy...”
– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (thank you, turtle787)
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“[ I’ve forgotten where I’m going… I’m still in love…
I’ve arrived in time,...”
– George Bacovia, from “Morning” (adapted from and translated by anhypnic)
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“Locked in my skinny box,
I want to be at least
one of the branches
leaning...”
– Terrance Hayes, from “Clarinet”
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“Posts: 790 Dear God.”
– Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked (thank you, concretedesign)
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“[“And I bet your old hearing.” Seymour comes up at my side and pats...”
– Christopher Pike, Thirst No. 1 (thank you, allthatshimmersissuretofadeaway)
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“So, through me, freedom and the sea
will make their answer to the shuttered...”
– Pablo Neruda, from “Poet’s Obligation”, translated by A. Reid
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“[When I was afraid of storms my father played the piano
with his foam fingers.]...”
– Swetha Regunathan, from “Blue”
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“[See you in Hell, scribe.
Well, I thought. Probably.]
But not today.”
– Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer (thank you, thevorpalsword)
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“Unknowing I understand:
I too am written,
and at this very moment
someone...”
– Octavio Paz, from “Homage to Claudio Ptolemy”
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“The faint memory of a heart pounded in his ghostly chest, and as the whine of...”
– Neal Shusterman, from Everlost (thanks, irre1evant)
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“The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.”
– Joseph Heller, from Catch-22 (thanks, aivlysann)
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“The rain will never stop falling.”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Shoulders”
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“I been away a long time.”
– Ken Kesey, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (thanks, abettername)
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“I vanish westward
into smoke.”
– Geoff Page, from “Prologue”
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“Sunrise,
accept this offering,
Sunrise.”
– Leslie Marmon Silko, from “Ceremony” (thanks, blarglr)
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“Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter...”
– E. E. Cummings, from “since feeling is first”
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“The far white ends
of hillside houses
are headstones in the
evening light.”
– Geoff Page, from “The Bretons Keep”
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“Saturday in the house closed in mourning, the final brilliance of life that...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, from The General in His Labyrinth (thanks, kelsokake)
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“[Can you imagine her eyes in that moment, as she asked
her mother to take her...”
– Jason Schneiderman, from “Sita” (via loveandzombies)
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“The purest note
a poet strikes
comes always from a
bad piano.”
– Geoff Page, from “The Languages”
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“If poetry could truly tell it backwards,
then it would.”
– Carol Ann Duffy, from “Last Post”
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“A scene of such quiet and peace that the observer on the ridge could avouch to...”
– Charles Frazier, from Cold Mountain (thanks, dan-yelle)