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  • #1
    Kelly Link
    “You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.”
    Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters: Stories

  • #2
    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    Patti Smith, Just Kids

  • #3
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    Neil Gaiman, Coraline

  • #4
    Anne Brontë
    “It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
    Anne Brontë

  • #5
    Italo Calvino
    “In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed, that among them there extend for acres and acres the Books You Needn't Read, the Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading, Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong To The Category Of Books Read Before Being Written. And thus you pass the outer girdle of ramparts, but then you are attacked by the infantry of the Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered. With a rapid maneuver you bypass them and move into the phalanxes of the Books You Mean To Read But There Are Others You Must Read First, the Books Too Expensive Now And You'll Wait Till They're Remaindered, the Books ditto When They Come Out In Paperback, Books You Can Borrow From Somebody, Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too. Eluding these assaults, you come up beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out:

    the Books You've Been Planning To Read For Ages,

    the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success,

    the Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment,

    the Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case,

    the Books You Could Put Aside Maybe To Read This Summer,

    the Books You Need To Go With Other Books On Your Shelves,

    the Books That Fill You With Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified,

    Now you have been able to reduce the countless embattled troops to an array that is, to be sure, very large but still calculable in a finite number; but this relative relief is then undermined by the ambush of the Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time To Reread and the Books You've Always Pretended To Have Read And Now It's Time To Sit Down And Really Read Them.”
    Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

  • #6
    Stanley Kunitz
    “The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
    Stanley Kunitz

  • #7
    Stanley Kunitz
    “the heart breaks and breaks
    and lives by breaking.
    It is necessary to go
    through dark and deeper dark
    and not to turn.

    from “The Testing Tree”
    Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree: Poems

  • #8
    Stanley Kunitz
    “End with an image and don't explain.”
    Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems

  • #9
    Stanley Kunitz
    “You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.”
    Stanley Kunitz

  • #10
    Stanley Kunitz
    “When they shall paint our sockets gray
    And light us like a stinking fuse,
    Remember that we once could say,
    Yesterday we had a world to lose.”
    Stanley Kunitz, The Collected Poems

  • #11
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
    Gabriel García Márquez

  • #12
    Mīrābāī
    “Don't forget love;
    it will bring all the madness you need
    to unfurl yourself across
    the universe.”
    Mirabai

  • #13
    Martin Buber
    “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
    Martin Buber

  • #14
    Paul Gauguin
    “Art is either revolution or plagiarism”
    Paul Gauguin
    tags: art

  • #15
    Paul Gauguin
    “Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
    Paul Gauguin

  • #16
    Pablo Picasso
    “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
    Pablo Picasso

  • #17
    Paul Éluard
    “Your eyes in which I travel
    Have given to signs along the roads
    A meaning alien to the earth.”
    Paul Eluard

  • #18
    Frank Kermode
    “It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.”
    Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction

  • #19
    Francis Picabia
    “The devil follows me day and night because he is afraid to be alone.”
    Francis Picabia

  • #20
    Fernando Pessoa
    “No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #21
    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #22
    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

  • #23
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
    Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

  • #24
    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    Miranda July, It Chooses You

  • #25
    Isabel Allende
    “Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.”
    Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea

  • #26
    Isabel Allende
    “I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, takes possession of me, drives away distress and sweetens my memory. The world trembles.”
    Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea

  • #27
    C. JoyBell C.
    “A lot of pieces I have written have to do with courage. As a result, people think that I am naturally brave. But what people don't know, is that I grew up with phobias and many fears. I was scared of everything. So, I write of courage not because I have not known fear, but I write of courage because I have walked with fear but I have made the choice not to fear it.”
    C. JoyBell C.

  • #28
    Kenneth Grahame
    “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #29
    Kenneth Grahame
    “Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

  • #30
    Kenneth Grahame
    “All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
    Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows



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