January 2012
57 posts
Jack, be →
Posted a new poem on my writing blog.
“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser (via tylerknott)
Shakespeare Professor's Thesis:
detectivemajesty:
Considering how emotional we as a class were about UP, he shudders to think what would happen if Pixar made an adaptation of King Lear.
If you write it, they will come.
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via bodasdesangre)
“I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.”
– Albert Einstein
Watchbeatonna:
Wild Life
Amanda Forbis, & Wendy Tilby
Only available to view online for a short while, another animated gem from the NFB, nominated for an Oscar.
“This animated short tells the story of a dapper young remittance man is sent from England to Alberta to attempt ranching in 1909. However, his affection for badminton, bird watching and liquor leaves him little time for...
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Only Slightly Fictional Craigslist Postings... →
“Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom lies the blazing light of...”
– Mahmud Shabestari
“I am a mysteriously slow writer. I say “mysteriously” because there is no...”
– Joseph Heller (via theparisreview)
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic and...”
– Goethe
It's Haiku Friday over at my writing blog. →
advice on how to write...
crashinglybeautiful:
“I write with light.”
—Andre Kertesz, from Diary of Light, inside cover. Thank you, mythologyofblue.
A Winter Night
crashinglybeautiful:
The storm puts its mouth to the house and blows to get a tone. I toss and turn, my closed eyes reading the storm’s text. The child’s eyes grow wide in the dark and the storm howls for him. Both love the swinging lamps; both are halfway towards speech. The storm has the hands and wings of a child. Far away, travellers run for cover. The house feels its own constellation of...
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows...”
– Pablo Picasso
A Great Need
crashinglybeautiful:
Out Of a great need We are all holding hands And climbing. Not loving is a letting go. Listen, The terrain around here Is Far too Dangerous For That.
—Hafiz (c. 1320 to 1389), translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Films I'd Like to See Directed and Produced by... →
“The city is built
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built...”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ms. Odradek: Silence the Sirens in Your Dreams →
Two years ago, at a time when my wife’s state of health was involving me in a lot of expense, but there was still some hope of its improving, I dreamed one night that I was composing a symphony, and heard it in my dream. On waking next morning I could recall nearly the whole of the first…
“My friend from Texas says that he’ll believe that corporations are people...”
– Bill Moyers on The Colbert Report, January 10, 2011
“Do not depend on the hope of results. … you may have to face the fact that your...”
– Thomas Merton in a letter to Jim Forest dated February 21, 1966, reproduced in The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters by Thomas Merton. Thank you The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in...”
– C. S. Lewis (Thank you, veareflejos)
Some People Wake Up
crashinglybeautiful:
“Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world. “
~Rainer Maria Rilke
Submitted by my good friend, Kirsten Liske. Thank you, and Happy New Year!