May 2011
25 posts
“Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble...”
– Nietzche
April 2011
19 posts
Why I Read →
I don’t bother to tell them that reading will sensitize them to the human condition, because they haven’t lived long enough to know what is meant by the human condition.
23 Band Names Inspired by Literature (i.e. the... →
Content Sharing Will Be The Death Of Me →
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“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the...”
– David Foster Wallace
“I have to stop worrying about numbers. I have to reclaim the ambiguous part of...”
– Robin Black (In a Data-Heavy Society, Being Defined by the Numbers - NYTimes.com)
“Each acquired word is another piece of the world. It’s the difference...”
– Joyce Thomas, Poets & Writers Magazine (May/June 2011)
“You must earn violence in writing. Build up the kindling and pipe in the oxygen...”
– Benjamin Percy and Aaron Gwyn, Poets & Writers Magazine (May/June)
The Artist’s Survival Kit →
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Typography Deconstructed →
Today
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful! Pearls, harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all the stuff they’ve always talked about
still makes a poem a surprise! These things are with us every day even on beachheads and biers. They do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.
— Frank O’Hara
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“Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”
– Margaret Atwood
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