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The work that stirs the greatest passion is also the work that creates around it the greatest silence, the strongest imperative to stand back and admire and let others admire, without interfering.
“The sound of the sea you hear in Proust, as if the whole book were a shell held to your ear, is the sound of the amniotic fluid, reminding you, across all your barriers of self-protection, that the first thing you ever heard was voices in the water.”
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
“The past is real but marbled by beliefs
That turned to myth as time eroded them.”
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
That turned to myth as time eroded them.”
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
“I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess.
- Han Solo”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
- Han Solo”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
“True it is,/ That these are not the droids for which thou search'st.
-Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
-Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi”
― William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope
“Isn't a blank verse paragraph just a chunk of prose bent around corners after every five beats? Try doing that and you'll not only get lines that don't scan, you'll also get, and all too often, the one effect that you definitely don't want: successive lines that rhyme.”
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
― Gate of Lilacs: A Verse Commentary on Proust
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Luke’s 2025 Year in Books
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Classics, Cookbooks, Ebooks, Fantasy, Graphic novels, Poetry, Religion, Science, and Science fiction
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