June 2011
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“Night nursed not him in whose dark mind
The clambering wings of birds of black...”
– Wallace Stevens, from “Palace of the Babies“ (via orioninacobweb)
“Language is not the lowborn, gawky servant of thought and feeling; it is need,...”
– William H. Gass (via deliberatepixel)
“because I prayed
this word:
I want”
– Sappho, fragment translated by Anne Carson (adapted from watercolournights)
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“There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word...”
– Anne Carson, from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent“ (via itgivesitthew)
