July 2011
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You are the future, the immense morning sky
turning red over the prairies of...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, You are the future, Translated by Robert Bly
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Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, From “To Music”, Translated by Stephen Mitchell
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You see, I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects...
– Georges Braque, The Power of Mystery, a London Observer interview with John Richardson, as quoted in Braque: The Late Works, 1997, by John Golding
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O memory, where is now my youth,
Who used to say that life was truth?
– Thomas Hardy, from: “I Have Lived With Shades”
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What do you consider most humane?—To spare someone shame.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, from: “The Gay Science”, 1882
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Always the general show of things
Floats in review before my mind,
And such...
– Henry David Thoreau, from: “Inspiration”
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The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a...
– Mark Twain, Letter to George Bainton, 15 October 1888 (thanks doegewooniets)
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Multitude, solitude: identical terms, and interchangeable by the active and...
– Charles Baudelaire, from: “Crowds”
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And is this your heart arithmetic?
This is the way the wind measures the...
– Carl Sandburg, from: “How Much?”
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Your hands have already opened their delicate fists
and let their soft drifting...
– Pablo Neruda, from: “Sonnet LXXXI”
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I am writing these poems
From inside a lion,
And it’s rather dark in...
– Shel Silverstein, It’s Dark in Here
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