June 2013
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How to Stay Sane!
(If it’s not too late!)
“Sit in sun. Sun goes behind cloud. Look at watch. Notice that second-hand does not always point directly at little marks on dial. Sometimes it does, though. Then sometimes it doesn’t. Why? Feel panic at how quickly life slips by. Get to work.”
—NICHOLSON BAKER
“The most beautiful bodies are like transparent glass.”
—Czesław Miłosz, from “Hymn,” unknown translation (via)
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
—Winston Churchill
“Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.”
—Henry Miller
“If you are going to learn from other writers don’t only read the great ones, because if you do that you’ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you’ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you’ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of bad stuff, too. It’s very encouraging. “Hey, I can do so much better than this.” Read the greatest stuff but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging.”
—EDWARD ALBEE
Today's Wilted Spirit
The door, not heavy, but my arm
won’t open it against the moderate
closure spring, and desire strikes -Suck me down 17 stories, through
the blue cements of underground
garage, through the wet clay untilI turn into chaotic French Onion
Soup and resigned…
