May 2013
1 post
harbor (the conversation)
By Nick Flynn
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If this bowl is always empty
If it breathes if it’s lung
If a horse can rise from the ashes
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Saul was a sailor on the boat to Damascus
He did not know what he was
Paul turned to a voice it rose up from the waves
It chained his boat to the darkness
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A man finds ash & he makes it a man
A horse finds ash in a horse
It lifts us it holds us it breaks...
February 2013
2 posts
“It begins in delight, it inclines to the impulse, it assumes direction with the...”
– Robert Frost, “The Figure a Poem Makes”
January 2013
1 post
Harald Sohlberg, “Winter Night in the Mountains” (1918-1924) Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain — and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood...
October 2012
1 post
I Give a Convincing Sermon
by Melissa Broder
I give a convincing sermon. I say The body is a coat. It is a very dark and heavy coat but worthless. Mother Mary nods from the pews. If I give Mary all my atoms she will plant them in a garden where ripened women relinquish their bones to make room for littler women. It is dangerous to grow accustomed to a garden. Just when the flowers soften you, they disappear. Then you are a...
September 2012
9 posts
Elegy in X Parts [Kafka said, A book]
by Matt Rasmussen
X.
Kafka said, A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside us, which sounds great, but what good is an axe against a frozen sea? Perhaps this is why he said, while dying, Destroy everything. There is little comfort in knowing there are worse undertakings than killing yourself. Is it dangerous to say these things? I don’t think so. Or I do. Either way, don’t...
August 2012
10 posts
“The biological object is made of time as much as it is made of space and matter.”
– Terence McKenna
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma)
“Cakes have gotten a bad rap. People equate virtue with turning down dessert....”
– Jeanne Ray (via shetakesflight)
“On the radio, if you’re performing it right, you’re exactly...”
– Ira Glass
“I couldn’t help but say to [Mr. Gorbachev], just think how easy his task...”
– Ronald Reagan, to high schoolers
WatchDoctor Who Series 7 Trailer
July 2012
12 posts
“In 2007, a district judge in Montana shoehorned 42 Beatles songs into his...”
– here
"Is rabbits eatable? Or you just s'posed to cuddle...
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
Talking In Bed
Talking in bed ought to be easiest, Lying together there goes back so far, An emblem of two people being honest. Yet more and more time passes silently. Outside, the wind’s incomplete unrest Builds and disperses clouds in the sky, And dark towns heap up on the horizon. None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why At this unique distance from isolation It becomes still more difficult...
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
– Francis Bacon
June 2012
3 posts
Meet Eric Wilson →
May 2012
9 posts
“The real message of money is that you don’t matter unless you’ve got a...”
– Edgar Cahn
"Mr. Cody, hook me up wit a glue stick… I'mma cut...
“Graduate school in the humanities is a trap. It is designed that way. It is...”
– here. hmm. I don’t know about this one.
“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to...”
– Frederic Chopin, Warsaw, 3 October 1829
“A watch is not about telling time. It’s about exposing the ignorance of...”
– customer review of the $102,300.00 Zenith ChronoMaster Men’s Watch
Lost parakeet tells Tokyo police its address →
April 2012
10 posts
[PDF] Essay by DFW, age 21, about his depression:... →
“You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything...”
– Salvador Dali
(also applies to an introvert dating an extrovert) 