Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant detail reveals a whole world. Like the messages hidden by spies in the dot of an i.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
An invincible summer
Labels:
Albert Camus,
an invincible summer,
details,
flowers,
Pierre Cordier,
writing
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Looking from outside into an open window
“I think that poems that have direct meanings—that’s a very dull poet, an extremely dull poet, and a person who is writing like he or she sees. That isn’t what you’re ever writing. You never write what you see. You see it, you just don’t write it. You write something else. And there’s always something else.”-Barbara Guest
Image: Cristian Schloe, Portrait of a Heart
Title: Charles Baudelaire, Windows
Labels:
Barbara Guest,
Charles Baudelaire,
Cristian Schloe,
of course,
poetry,
sight,
the heart,
writing
Monday, December 30, 2013
The Curt Truth
"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."
-Andre Gide
Image: Charles Thurston Thompson, Autoportrait, 1853
Title: Carson McCullers, from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories
Labels:
Andre Gide,
Carson McCullers,
Charles Thurston Thompson,
joy,
sadness
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
I ‘saw’ the canvas turn blue as I put the paint down
“I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn’t understand, and I understood almost nothing.”
- | César Aira |
Title: Sargy Mann
Labels:
César Aira,
Gerhard Richter,
ice,
icebergs,
Sargy Mann,
winter,
writing
Monday, November 18, 2013
Caught between the tongue and the taste
always impossible.”
-Doris Lessing
Title: Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Image: Found
-Doris Lessing
Title: Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Image: Found
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