Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
solemnity
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
am none; nor will my sun renew.”
Katherine May • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
despondent,
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
sables changeants ;
Paul Kalanithi • Quand le souffle rejoint le ciel (Essais et documents) (French Edition)
chutzpah.
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
PALLIATIVE.
Rumaan Alam • Leave the World Behind
Perchance as we grow old we cease to spring with the spring, and we are indifferent to the succession of years, and they go by without epoch as months. Woe be to us when we cease to form new resolutions on the opening of a new year!
Henry David Thoreau, Damion Searls, • The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
‘Near East’