Sentences that sing
Beautiful, devasting sentences of all kinds
Sentences that sing
The Red Hand Files
dry vermouth
and you’ll tell the truth
Bob Dylan
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul blood and bone shop of the heart
W.B.Yeats
And I can’t get rid of the trouble, because my society denies that it is troubling. My society says it’s all right, nothing is wrong women’s feet are there to be tortured and deformed for the sake of fashion and convention, for the sake of eroticism, for the sake of marrigeability, for the sake of money. And we all say yes, certainly, all right,
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I had a strange sensation this morning, an ‘I want to write a poem’ feeling but then I realised I wanted to write a poem I’ve already written several times. For what it’s worth, I think its ok to repeat yourself, I kind of enjoy that in other writers - sitting with them as they loop around the same intractable problem, but the desire made me read... See more
instagram.com‘There is a crack, a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in.’ — Leonard Cohen
“It was the Fourth of July, and I had forgotten all of wide space and all of historical time. I opened the blinds a crack like eyelids, and it all came exploding in on me at once—oh yes, the world.” — Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
Who I am is certainly part of how I look and vice versa. I want to know where I begin and end, what size I am, and what suits me. People who say the body is unimportant floor me. How can they believe that? I don’t want to be a disembodied brain floating in a glass jar in a sci-fi movie, and I don’t believe I’ll ever be a disembodied spirit floating
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