June 2012
154 posts
WENDELL BERRY
poetrysince1912:
journalofanobody:
crashinglybeautiful:
How To Be A Poet (to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill—more of each than you have—inspiration, work, growing older, patience, for patience joins time to eternity.
—Poetry, January 2001
“She had nothing left in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for...”
– Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (via housingworksbookstore)
“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine...”
– Dave Eggers (via larmoyante)
“The first problem of style is how to make dead things come alive. By dead...”
– Douglas Glover, “The Drama of Grammar” (via invisiblestories)
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that...”
– Neil Postman-“Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business” (via freins)
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde (via larmoyante)
