February 2012
174 posts
“But life is not all eloquence and adulation: life is wiping the baby’s bum; it...”
– William Gass, “Emerson and the Essay” (via invisiblestories)
“One wants to turn away—and cry
for fire to break out on the stairs
and raze...”
– Dana Gioia, from “Maze without a Minotaur” (via proustitute)
“My fingers guideposts pearled with pleasure...”
– Joyce Mansour, Pericoloso Sporgersi (via frenchtwist)
“Waking bathed in perspiration; a beating heart, a shuddering body, a light...”
– André Gide, The Fruits of the Earth (via frenchtwist)
“The meaning of books lies before them and not behind: it is in us. A book is not...”
– Richard Howard, “A Consideration of the Writings of Emily Dickinson” (via invisiblestories)
