e.rose

"Everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 13:26:09 -0600

“Everything will pass, but my happiness, dear, my happiness will remain, in the moist reflection of a streetlamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal’s black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.”

- Vladimir Nabokov, A Letter That Never Reached Russia

"I am too alone in this world and not alone enough to make every moment holy."

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:13:13 -0600

“I am too alone in this world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.”

- Rilke

"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship..."

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:18:48 -0600

“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.”

- William Faulkner

"I begin to suspect that a man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom."

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:18:35 -0600

“I begin to suspect that a man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"my ignorance of you amazes me now that I watch you starting to give yourself away to the wind"

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:04:27 -0600

“my ignorance of you amazes me
now that I watch you
starting to give yourself away
to the wind”

- Adrienne Rich, The Will to Change

"But we who serve Art, sometimes with the mind’s intensity, can create … pleasure that..."

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:30:51 -0600

“But we who serve Art,
sometimes with the mind’s intensity,
can create … pleasure that seems almost physical.”

- C.P. Cavafy

"Oh, life! ‘tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,—as wild,..."

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:27:03 -0600

“Oh, life! ‘tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge,—as wild, untutored things are forced to feed—Oh, life! ‘tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but ‘tis not me! that horror’s out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me, 0 ye blessed influences !”

- Herman Melville, Moby Dick

"From the moment she was born people had been happy to tell her what to do, down to the most minute..."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:43 -0600

“From the moment she was born people had been happy to tell her what to do, down to the most minute detail … this is how to behave, this is what to think, this is how to think it, that’s then, this is now, this is where to put your sock— but no one had ever said one little thing that would get her through any five given minutes of her life!”

- Deborah Eisenberg, The Girl Who Left Her Sock on the Floor

"It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find reality through..."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:40:38 -0600

“It is necessary to have had a revelation of reality through joy in order to find reality through suffering.”

- Simone Weil

"If no one thought about Hamlet, there would be nothing left of him … if no one had thought..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:55:46 -0600

““If no one thought about Hamlet, there would be nothing left of him … if no one had thought about Napoleon, he would have soon seen to it that someone did.””

- Bertrand Russell on the difference between fact and fiction

"It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the..."

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 12:04:12 -0600

“It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls… .”

- Seymour Krim

"Music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:14:04 -0600

“Music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena but rather to the expression of the artist’s soul.”

- Wassily Kandinsky

"I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk, within three minutes..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:20:06 -0600

“I had this three-minute rule that if you just shut up and let someone talk, within three minutes they will show you how crazy they really are. And it has happened time and time and time again.”

- Errol Morris

"I am moved by fancies that are curled Around these images, and cling: The notion of some..."

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:40:39 -0600

“I am moved by fancies that are curled
Around these images, and cling:
The notion of some infinitely gentle
Infinitely suffering thing.”

- TS Eliot, 3. Preludes

"I have a theory about why the National Enquirer is more reliable than the New York Times …...."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:41:05 -0600

“I have a theory about why the National Enquirer is more reliable than the New York Times …. Elizabeth Taylor can sue; the Kurds can’t.”

- Errol Morris

"If the dinosaurs had a space program, they’d still be here."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:30:00 -0600

“If the dinosaurs had a space program, they’d still be here.”

- Astronaut Ron Garan in his Reddit AMA thread

"Love is what is left when you let go of all the things you love."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:25:00 -0600

“Love is what is left when you let go of all the things you love.”

- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

"Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at,..."

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:59:00 -0600

“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very good at, I make my own target around wherever my arrow happens to have landed.”

- Brian Eno

"Professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:33:05 -0600

“Professing English because I loved poems was like practicing vivisection because I loved dogs.”

- Michael Donaghy

"A Rainbow. There are such things. I straighten myself."

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:07:51 -0600

“

A Rainbow.

There are such things. I straighten myself.

”

- Buddhist poem