February 2012
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“Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and...”
– Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Harry to Dorian in Chapter XIX
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“For a decade, the Bush-era federal law called No Child Left Behind has required...”
– Diane Ravitch, No Student Left Untested (via nybooks)
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“Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I...”
– Raymond Carver, from New Path to the Waterfall (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989)
(thanks apoetreflects)
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“What we must do,
I suppose,
is to hope the world
keeps its balance;
what we...”
– Mary Oliver, from “The Owl Who Comes” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
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Watchtrailer for Robyn O’Neil’s new video “We, the Masses”
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“from what we cannot hold the stars are made”
– W.S. Merwin | from “Youth”
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“I thought I was growing wings —
it was a cocoon.
I thought, now is the...”
– Denise Levertov | “Seeing For a Moment”
(thanks ekphora!)
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“It was like that. Almost the last thing I remember was standing with Daisy and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby
from 10 of the Greatest Kisses in Literature
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“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via casimirpulaskiday)
A Clear Midnight
wwnorton:
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, Night, sleep, death and the stars.
-Walt Whitman
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“…and if it were a question of poetry we would likely find that she is the...”
– Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds | pg. 13
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“‘I love the stars, and I’m almost angry with the Sun for overpowering...”
– Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds | pg. 10
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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via comme-la-mer)
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California's Same-Sex Marriage Ban Is... →
word.
nprfreshair:
California’s Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled.
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“‘Who are you really, wanderer?’–
and the answer you have to give...”
– William Stafford | excerpt from “A Story That Could Be True”
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“You will never be alone, you hear so deep
a sound when autumn comes. Yellow...”
– William Stafford | “Assurance”
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“Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes I have made. Ask me whether...”
– William Stafford | “Ask Me”
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“And Peter almost with tears in his eyes late one night realized that other...”
– Jack Kerouac | The Town and The City | pg. 127
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“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters,...”
– John Dewey
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“Place your hands together in an attitude of supplication.
Bring to me your...”
– Mark Wunderlich | “Ice Queen”
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NYT | The Upside of Dyslexia | 2.4.12 →
“The compelling implication of this finding,” wrote Dr. Von Károlyi and her co-authors in the journal Brain and Language, “is that dyslexia should not be characterized only by deficit, but also by talent.”
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“The morning is piano music, cut fruit on a plate. Across the bay, the sun will...”
– Mark Wunderlich | excerpt from “The Imperial Life of Insects” | Voluntary Servitude
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“There is, in the old city, a museum of living butterflies. The glass walls of...”
– Mark Wunderlich | excerpt from “The Imperial Life of Insects” | Voluntary Servitude
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“Time unseen time our continuing fiction
however we tell it eludes our dear hope...”
– W.S. Merwin | excerpt from “Secrets”
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“…did he see any farther when he was
dying in summer after midnight and...”
– W.S. Merwin | excerpt from “Secrets”
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“So few things we need to know.
And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow...”
– Robert Hass, from “Against Botticelli” (via proustitute)
