March 2012
“Quotations have a special interest, since one is not apt to quote what is not...”
– Wallace Stevens, letter to Elsie (January 7, 1909)
February 2012
Two Serious Ladies: “Marriage Is A Legal Fiction,”... →
janebowles:
“Marriage Is A Legal Fiction,” excerpt clipping from vintage romance novel, matchbox, two burnt matches. 2010. Image courtesy of the artist. Legacy Russell is an East Village born-and-bred writer, artist, curator, and creative producer. She has worked at and produced programs for The Bruce High Quality Foundation, CREATIVE TIME, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of...
VIDA numbers I’d like to see | HTMLGIANT →
“… one thing you can do about it is be a woman and work hard and submit everywhere until you cannot be ignored.” —Catherine Lacey on the 2011 VIDA numbers, comparing publications by their yearly total of men vs. women published
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via thatkindofwoman)
“Summer is over and
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.”
–
Robert Hass, “Basho: A Departure”
(via the-final-sentence)
“You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you...”
– Gertrude Stein (via thatkindofwoman)
“We spoke all night in tongues,
in fingertips, in teeth.”
–
Robert Hass, from “Spring” (via the-final-sentence)
“In an eleventh dream the father felt very tired, though in this world tired...”
– Blake Butler, There Is No Year
“They were supposed to have thrown it out. Burned it. Burned the ashes. Buried...”
– Blake Butler, There Is No Year
“What he should do or be is, for him, only a pedagogical question, an expression...”
– Lukács, “The Theory of the Novel”
“For eleven years I have regretted it,
regretted that I did not do what
I...”
–
Jack Gilbert, “By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M.” (Refusing Heaven, Knopf, 2005)
“Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow, Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and...”
– Albert Goldbarth, from “The Sciences Sing a Lullabye” (via Sharing Poetry)