February 2011
Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from...
– Ted Hughes, 1995 (via thepanicofbirds)
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
– Virginia Woolf (via ish07)
January 2011
No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has...
– T. S. Eliot, 1942 (via thepanicofbirds)
The early hours of morning; you still aren’t writing (rather, you...
– Adam Zagajewski, Without End
With a poem you can say, I now have the equivalent in words for that much of...
– T. S. Eliot, The Paris Review (1959)
Every morning, I have woken up knowing that I will never run out of books to...
– Kenzaburo Oe
The thing is not to follow a pattern…. The thing is to accept your own...
– Katherine Anne Porter
I can’t get rid of books. It’s almost like having your thoughts [around you]. I...
– Keira Knightley, Elle UK, 2011 March (via maced)
It was the last moment of the light, and as he gazed at the Marabar Hills they...
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
He cried, feeling that every earth was being stopped.
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
As a rule, with me an unfinished thing is a thing that might as well be rubbed...
– T. S. Eliot, The Paris Review (1959)
Her thin cheeks narrowed by November cold
She ran indoors and cried—It hurts,...
– Paul Engle, Sonnet XXII