April 2012
17 posts
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“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning...”
– Warm Bodies, Isaac Marion
"If Seasons Were Boyfriends" by Ryan O'Connell
The Summer Boyfriend
The Summer Boyfriend is easy breezy. You can find him on a fire escape at someone’s house party, smoking cigarettes and clutching a sangria. He is the definition of someone you don’t want when the weather gets cold but he’s perfect for the warmer temperatures. You envision him on a beach with the sand in his toes. You see him shirtless and drinking margaritas on a rooftop....
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“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of...”
– The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac: The Writings in Prose and Verse of Eugene Field, Eugene Field
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“that night I told you to be careful / in the way I could not be careful...”
– “On the Inside”, the realm of possibility, David Levithan
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“Fine writing has as its distinction a magnificent power to penetrate. It can...”
– Living by Fiction, Annie Dillard
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“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the...”
– “How to Be Madder than Captain Ahab”, Ray Bradbury
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"If I Could Tell You"
Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know. If we should weep when clowns put on their show, If we should stumble when musicians play, Time will say nothing but I told you so. There are no fortunes to be told, although, Because I love you more than I can say, If I could tell you I would let you know. The...
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Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes
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“Stay gold.”
– Johnny, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
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Love Sonnet XVII
I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance, risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. I love you...
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A Coat
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.
- William Butler Yeats
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“It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn’t know inside me.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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“I love life—that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of...”
– The Fall, Albert Camus
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“Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.”
– Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, Anthony Bourdain
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“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite...”
– The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
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“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– e. e. cummings 