Monday, July 28, 2014
Sunday, July 27, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
God snaps your picture : don't look away -- |
this room right now, your face tilted |
exactly as it is before you can think |
or control it. Go ahead, let it betray |
all the secret emergencies and still hold |
that partial disguise you call your character. |
Even your lip, they say, the way it curves |
or doesn't, or can't decide, will deliver |
bales of evidence. The camera, wide open, |
stands ready; the exposure is thirty-five years |
or so -- after that you have become |
whatever the veneer is, all the way through. |
Now you want to explain. Your mother |
was a certain -- how to express it? -- influence. |
Yes. And your father, whatever he was, |
you couldn't change that. No. And your town |
of course had its limits. Go on, keep talking : |
Hold it. Don't move. That's you forever. |
William Stafford An Archival Print |
Monday, July 21, 2014
Sunday, July 20, 2014
Friday, July 18, 2014
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Before I can discard the verse, I have to write it… I can’t discard a verse before it is written because it is the writing of the verse that produces whatever delights or interests or facets that are going to catch the light. The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines...
I always used to work hard. But I had no idea what hard work was until
something changed in my mind… I don’t really know what it was. Maybe
some sense that this whole enterprise is limited, that there was an end
in sight… That you were really truly mortal. Leonard Cohen
Monday, July 14, 2014
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Monday, July 7, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
Saturday, July 5, 2014
Friday, July 4, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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