These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Both eager and afraid to fall in




















That uncrossable gulf between home and away.
-Steve Himmer, excerpt from The Importance of Unwritten Postcards

Image: Jan and Hubert Van Eyck, L’Agneau Mystique (The Ghent Altarpiece), 1432
Title: Rainer Maria Rilke, from Early Journals

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

They would rather be trees














There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries.
-Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister

Image: Érik Desmazières for The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges2000
Title: Margaret Atwood, Men With the Heads of Eagles

Friday, January 18, 2013

In the vast world or in the immense past
































… the silence
Holds with its gloved hand
The wild hawk of the mind.
— R. S. Thomas, excerpt from “The Untamed” 


Images: Found; Edward Curtis
Title: Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space



Saturday, January 12, 2013

Come, young rain of tears




















All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
-Ernest Hemingway


Image: Alexis ArnoldCrystalized books
Title:  Rolf Jacobsen