March 2012
“If you stand
there long enough the air will thicken
with dusk and...”
– Philip Levine, from “How to Get There” (via proustitute)
February 2012
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin (via sueting)
“If you can bring nothing to this place
but your carcass, keep out.”
– William Carlos Williams, from “Dedication for a Plot of Ground” (via proustitute)
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated...”
– Wendell Berry, from “How to Be a Poet” in Given (via proustitute)
“You came into the heart of our grief.
This is a house dressed in black.”
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“I miss holding my breath.”
– Mary Ruefle, from “Elegy for a Game” (via proustitute)
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