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 time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Mute as amber






















When we speak of solitaries, we always take too much for granted. We think people know what we are talking about. But they know absolutely nothing. 

-Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

Art: Vilhelm Hammershoi, Baker's Shop1888 
Title:
James Agee, excerpt from A Death in the Family

Sunday, February 16, 2014

I studied the little girl and at last rediscovered my mother
























A novel is not a place one passes through; it is a place one inhabits.
-Paulin Limayrac, “Du Roman acuel et de nos romanciers,” Revue des deux mondes from The Arcades Project
Image: Sergio Larrain, Passage Bavestrello, Valparaiso, Chili, 1952
Title: Selina Mayer

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"

Friday, March 30, 2012

You come back home to find yourself there






"And the day goes by, but time stands still."
— Knut Hamsun, Pan

Title: Attributed to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie