Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Nor is she simply a memory machine, one of those prototypical top students with a capacity for ingesting vast amounts of unfiltered information. She is sensitive and acute, her opinions are unfailingly original, and, shy and nervous as she is, she stubbornly holds her ground in any argument.
Paul Auster • Invisible
Charles Eliot Norton,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Annie Allen (1949) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950, making her the first ever Black author to do so;
Margo Jefferson • Maud Martha
Back in Brooklyn, a poet-nurse to the Union dying writes: A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. Jørgen never reads these words.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
she herself was “color blind” and saw only what was in a person’s heart.
Zadie Smith • Swing Time: A Novel
The unfortunate girl was found wandering the streets in despair, since the map was inaccurate and the Mayday contacts turned out not to exist.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
They have remained in the museum of my mind.