These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

An invincible summer























    
Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant detail reveals a whole world. Like the messages hidden by spies in the dot of an i.
-Pierre Cordier

Title: Albert Camus
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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

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

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
Image: Gerhard RichterIceberg in the mist
Title: Sargy Mann

Monday, November 18, 2013

Caught between the tongue and the taste
























“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are 
 
always impossible.” 
-Doris Lessing


Title: Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Image: Found