July 2011
1 post
“Some things, as I say, I saw, some discovered, and some dreamed, and I can no...”
– James Salter (A Sport and a Pastime)
June 2011
16 posts
“Ruthie sees lovely things everywhere. I might be telling her a joke and...”
– Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)
““When did you get out of Yale?”
“I didn’t,” he...”
– James Salter (A Sport and a Pastime)
“It is the emptiness which pleases me, the blue dimensions of this life.”
– James Salter (A Sport and a Pastime)
“I only want whoever reads this to be as resigned as I am. There’s enough...”
– James Salter (A Sport and a Pastime)
“When much in the Woods as a little Girl, I was told that the Snake would bite...”
– Emily Dickinson (Selected Letters)
“I have it in mind that, during that Vietnam war, one of the inventions of...”
– Robert Hass (“Listening and Making”)
“All those whose success in life depends neither upon a job which satisfies some...”
– W.H. Auden (“Writing”)
“Contemporary culture makes pilgrimage impossible. Experience is always...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
“Authenticity comes from a single faithfulness: that to the ambiguity of...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
“A grasshopper jumped into a rest-stop toilet. People ate veal. I dated a chubby...”
– Matt Sumell (“Little Things”)
“On their wedding day, Daniel had given her a card with a photograph of a beach...”
– Aimee Bender (“The Red Ribbon”)
“We live in difficult times; art should be difficult (my goal is to make every...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
“On the train she indicated that she’d been assaulted by a friend of her older...”
– Rick Moody (“Some Contemporary Characters”)
“I like to write stuff that’s only an inch from life, from what really...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
“The most political thing I can do is try to render people’s lives,...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
“The life span of a fact is shrinking. I don’t think there’s time to...”
– David Shields (Reality Hunger)
May 2011
3 posts
“The degree of excitement which a writer feels during the process of composition...”
– W.H. Auden (“Writing”)
“Can there be laughter without comparisons. The tongue lisps in its hilarious...”
– Lyn Hejinian (My Life)
“I suppose I had always hoped that, through an act of will and the effort of...”
– Lyn Hejinian (My Life)
April 2011
3 posts
“I think you would like the Chestnut Tree, I met in my walk. It hit my notice...”
– Emily Dickinson
“Anxiety is vigilant. Perhaps initially, even before one can talk, restlessness...”
– Lyn Hejinian, (My Life)
“Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the...”
– Victor Shklovsky
March 2011
4 posts
What Is the Language Using Us For?
What is the language using us for? It uses us all and in its dark Of dark actions selections differ. I am not making a fool of myself For you. What I am making is A place for language in my life Which I want to be a real place Seeing I have to put up with it Anyhow. What are Communication’s Mistakes in the magic medium doing To us? It matters only in So far as we want to be telling Each other...
1 tag
“And the story goes she never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole...”
– Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)
“I often fall into the habit of thinking anyone born in the ages before I was...”
– Mary Ruefle
“God is a toddler. He is learning to walk, tumbling into everything, touching the...”
– Mary Ruefle
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
8 posts
December 2010
20 posts
