February 2012
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The only thing I hate more than love is not being in it.
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Listen up gents, this cat knows where it’s...
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If You Had to
If you had to make the quill pen in the old way, stripping the feathers, cutting the well, splitting & shearing the tip
off clean; if you had to grind the ink, holding the cake straight against the stone, circling until your wrist ached
to get the proper tone of black; would you wonder, as you sat before the paper what sort of poem was worthy of your labor?
-Sam Green
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I’d never want someone so crass as to want someone like me.
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“I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s paws were on...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
I think John Ashbery would agree.
suffocation
A passage from Paul Harding’s “Tinkers”:
Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease with this world, it is all we have, that it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn’t it? And as you split frost-laced word with numb hands, rejoice that your...
“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it. Because nobody else will.”
