Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Monday, November 19, 2012
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
What Geomancy
"For words are clumsy mountaineers and clumsy miners. Not for them to
bring down treasures from the mountains’ peaks, or up from the
mountains’ bowels."
-Franz Kafka, in a letter written to Selma Kohn
[Source: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, trans. by Richard and Clara Winston]
[Source: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, trans. by Richard and Clara Winston]
[Image: Thomas Moglu]
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012
A World Without Water
"Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.”
-Richard Flanagan
Images:
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Writing: An Infinite Question
A “journey of profundity and solitude across measureless oceans.”
-Giorgio de Chirico
Image: Mark Tansey, Wheel of Language
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
RIP Ray Bradbury
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
-Ray Bradbury
-Ray Bradbury
Image: Samuel Clemens (yes, the one)
RIP Ray Bradbury: August 22, 1920 - June 5, 2012, age 91)
Friday, May 25, 2012
Everything is
Everything is gestation and then bringing forth.
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, p. 23 [translated by M.D. Herter Norton]
Photo: Inge Morath, Courtyard and portal, Masjid-e Shah, Isfahan, Iran, 1956
Labels:
gestation,
holy,
Inge Morath,
Iran,
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Rilke,
what it takes to write,
writing
Thursday, May 17, 2012
My postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face
"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”
-Carlos Fuentes, RIP (November 11, 1928 – May 15, 2012)
Image: Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek, drawing of a microscopic section through one year old ash wood
Title: Nod to Anne Sexton
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
When the words become palpable
Know amazedly how
often one takes his madness
into his own hands
often one takes his madness
into his own hands
and keeps it.
—Lorine Niedecker
—Lorine Niedecker
Image: Adolf Wölfli, Rosalia Walther, Owner of the Grand-Hotel on Mount Neveranger, 1911
Title: Nod to John Ashbery
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Radical of Writing
“Write about what you don't know about what you know.”
―Eudora Welty
Image: Yto Barrada, Family Tree, 2009
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