May 2013
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and...”
– Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech (via victoriousvocabulary)
“It’s never, ever, ever good enough. Work on a draft until you reach a point of...”
– Roy Kesey (via mttbll)
“In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but...”
– Albert Camus (via nogods-nomasters-noborders)
“By absorption I mean engrossing, engulfing
completely, engaging, arresting...”
– Charles Bernstein
Perelman: “These two sets of oppositions differentiate persuasive writing from writing that foregrounds its own formality; Bernstein’s allegiance is to the side of the binary less valued by conventional poetics. But it is not a rigorous commitment. The very idea of an invariable...
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(franflow)
“I want to read crate-fulls of old used, bent, wrinkly paged books. With the...”
– (via impulseandinstincts)
“I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.” - William...”
– (via the-random-quotes)
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read....”
– Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides (via fingeorge)
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland (via talesofprettythings)
