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 place. Show all posts
Showing posts with label place. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

The sky runs toward me, laughing like a child





I really don't know clouds at all.
 
-Joni Mitchell

 
Image: Found
 
Title: Yves Bonnefoy, from “The Painter Named Snow”

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sight


















Elsewhere unseen.

Image: Molly Taylor sorts through a pile of eyes, London, 1933

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

So Many Stones (Or: The Turret’s Cage is Shapely)




Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 
 
it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 
 
it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 
 
it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place for 
 
it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the place 
 
for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or the 
 
place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time or 
 
the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the time 
 
or the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find the 
 
time or the place for it. Wanting to write and not being able to find 
 
the time or the place for it.

-Raymond Carver, on "things too tedious to talk about" +
Image: Gao Xingjian, ForĂȘt vierge, 2006
Title: Anna Akhmatova, from "Solitude"

Sunday, November 11, 2012

To make this place another




















It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
-Marguerite Duras

Image: Petah CoyneUntitled # 735 (Monks II), 1992
Title: Susan Sontag from the essay, “Unguided Tour”

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Hesitantly, like scattered islands















"We go forward and backward, and there is no place."
-Rosmarie Waldrop, "Conversation 4: On Place,” from Reluctant Gravities +


Image: Danny Lyon, The Walls: Cell Block Table, 1964
Title: Nod to Rilke (who else?), from The Book of Hours I, 18