December 2011
151 posts
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“I take my cane to feel the way, for the air is so black I think already we are...”
– Louise Erdrich, from The Plague of Doves (thanks, stillvolcanolife)
Dec 31st
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“She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.”
– Ayn Rand, We the Living (thanks, scribbydr)
Dec 31st
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“I’d like to teach you the names of these trees, to confess How much I need to...”
– Alexander Long, from “Goodbye in Slow Motion with Those Trees Waving Back”
Dec 31st
118 notes
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“[In silent farewell, he saluted the men he had known, whether they had hindered...”
– Arthur C. Clarke, from Childhood’s End (thanks, maybenotamuggle)
Dec 30th
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“You must change your life.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
Dec 30th
130 notes
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“I have reservoirs of want enough to freeze many nights over.”
– Conor O’Callaghan, from “January Drought” (adapted from rabbit-light)
Dec 30th
136 notes
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“Now, suppose you must wed, and make no blunder, And either would love you, and...”
– Robert Service, from “?” (thanks, shedrake)
Dec 30th
92 notes
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“Such is a silence of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing silence is...”
– Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 10” (via weissewiese)
Dec 30th
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“[But the constricted light, the year closing down on itself with all the...”
– Linda Pastan, from “The Letter” (adapted from soulsublime)
Dec 29th
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“Because you’re next,” I said. “I’m the demon slayer....”
– Dan Wells, from Mr. Monster (thanks, randomawesomes)
Dec 29th
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“I learn by going where I have to go.”
– Theodore Roethke, from “The Waking”
Dec 29th
198 notes
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“I loved you Wednesday,—yes—but what       Is that to me?”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Thursday”
Dec 29th
123 notes
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“[They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.] “Poor...”
– John Gardner, from Grendel (thanks, decadentspring)
Dec 29th
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“I wonder if you knew how I watched, how I crowded before the spearsmen— but...”
– H. D., from “Loss“
Dec 28th
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“I carry from my mother’s womb A fanatic heart.”
– William Butler Yeats, from “Remorse For Intemperate Speech”
Dec 28th
175 notes
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“Power, here, failed the deep imagining: but already my desire and will were...”
– Dante Alighieri, from The Divine Comedy, “Paradisio,” translated by A. S. Kline
Dec 28th
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“[Soon this delightful trip which we had enjoyed for three months would be over.]...”
– Gustave Flaubert, Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel Through Brittany
Dec 28th
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“We are one.”
– Cassandra Clare, from City of Fallen Angels
Dec 28th
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“And as we share God’s love with our brothers and sisters, God’s other children,...”
– Desmond Tutu, from God Has a Dream (thanks, justwontbackdown)
Dec 27th
79 notes
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“The fingers loosened, and the book they had held moved slowly and then swiftly...”
– John Williams, Stoner
Dec 27th
69 notes
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“The astonishing flowers, seething a blue I could barely see.”
– Mark Doty, from “Days of 1981”
Dec 27th
203 notes
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“I was myself the compass of that sea: I was the world in which I walked, and...”
– Wallace Stevens, from “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon” (via gammasandgerunds)
Dec 27th
239 notes
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“You got us home, yet somehow I am still out there: gasping, falling,...”
– Jane Kerrison, from Sailing
Dec 27th
127 notes
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“What’s not to love?” I said simply. “He’s my brother.”
– Rob Thurman, from Chimera (thanks, lovelysinnerlady)
Dec 27th
67 notes
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“Out through the window, even in the darkness of the night, the blossoms of the...”
– G. Garfield Crimmins, from The Republic of Dreams: A Reverie (thanks, tinyhomemaker)
Dec 26th
39 notes
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“[One day after another— Perfect.] They all fit.”
– Robert Creeley, “One Day”
Dec 26th
175 notes
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“I can’t speak for other – for me this is misery and happiness enough: just...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “The Ball”(translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Claire Cavanagh)
Dec 26th
132 notes
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“[On the way back to D.C. where he’d meet Phoebe and the girls, he stopped...”
– Michael Palmer, from Miracle Cure (thanks, skyy-dn)
Dec 26th
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“[With every fragment of rock that falls from me, I can hear the voice of...”
– Andrew Davidson, from The Gargoyle (thanks, learntolikeit)
Dec 25th
90 notes
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“[Try finding a sunset through a simple gift of looking west. There can be too...”
– Richard O. Moore, from “d e l e t e, Part 6”
Dec 25th
67 notes
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“Be ignited, or be gone.”
– Mary Oliver, from “What I Have Learned So Far”
Dec 25th
321 notes
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“[There are miracles everywhere, though sometimes they are concealed, not by God,...”
– Homer Hickam, from Sky of Stone (thanks, skyy-dn)
Dec 25th
125 notes
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“Flee, my beloved, and liken yourself to a gazelle or to a fawn of the hinds on...”
– From “The Song of Songs”
Dec 24th
87 notes
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“[He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew...”
– Clement Clarke Moore, from “A Visit from St. Nicholas”
Dec 24th
115 notes
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“[Then he wiped his falling tears and, not paying any attention to the cries,...”
– Dmitry Glukhovsky, from Metro 2033 (thanks, la-voyage-dans-la-lune)
Dec 24th
57 notes
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“And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless us, everyone!”
– Charles Dickens, from A Christmas Carol (thanks, behind-the-times)
Dec 24th
147 notes
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“[So, good night unto you all.] Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin...”
– William Shakespeare, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Dec 24th
142 notes
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“In the still, warm air her song blended with the timeless smells: fresh cut...”
– Kathryn Reiss, from Time Windows (thanks, skyy-dn)
Dec 24th
84 notes
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“Perhaps not the meaning of time, but the time of meaning, & the fact that...”
– Seth Abramson, from “What I Have”
Dec 23rd
253 notes
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“I am present.”
– Paul Goldman, from “For This Morning”
Dec 23rd
139 notes
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“And if it happens that you cannot go on or turn back and you find yourself...”
– Mark Strand, from “Lines for Winter”
Dec 23rd
450 notes
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“And now time is rushing towards them where they stand side by side with arms...”
– Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red (thanks, petitemort-v)
Dec 23rd
81 notes
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“[When Asahaki gives the signal, the cart and the trolley move off: Toshio...”
– Grant Sutherland, from Diplomatic Immunity (thanks, skyy-dn)
Dec 23rd
18 notes
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“[Above Manhattan, the moon wanes, and the sky turns clearer and colder.]...”
– Marie Howe, from “After the Movie”
Dec 23rd
82 notes
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Dec 22nd
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“No more broken glass?” Sandeep said. I ruffled his hair. “No more...”
– Sally Grindley, from Broken Glass (thanks, blueskiesnews)
Dec 22nd
37 notes
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“[The sky was a god-bee that hummed. All the air boomed with that thunder.] It...”
– Luke Davies, from “[In the yellow time of pollen]”
Dec 22nd
107 notes
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“‘I can’t really think of anything that I can do,’ John...”
– Brandon Scott Gorrell, during my nervous breakdown i want to have a biographer present (thanks, muumuuhouse)
Dec 22nd
49 notes
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“[She opened her hand and showed him the necklace. “Could you fix this? I...”
– Lois Lowry, from Number the Stars (thanks, skyy-dn)
Dec 21st
80 notes
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“Watch how the leaves balance the sky, then let it fall.”
– Helen Mort, from “Grasmere Oak”
Dec 21st
124 notes