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[polyatomics]

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.” -Mary Oliver

Please leave me quotes and book suggestions and poetry. If you have added me and I haven't added you back, please introduce yourself.

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[calliopealive]

i feel like i suggest the same books over & over again, but..

einsteins dreams - alan lightman
lighthousekeeping - jeanette winterson
white oleander - janet finch
she - saul williams

quotes:

she realised that the only war worth fighting was the one that raged within; the rest were all diversions. home was not a place for the faint hearted. only the very brave could live with themselves.
- jeanette winterson (orion: the world and other places)

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

[polyatomics]

I just got The World and Other Places today, so it's so strange to me that you quoted it while I am about to start it. I miss you darling, that photograph is beautiful.

You have been telling me to read Einstein's Dreams for years, and I still haven't yet! You must yell at me sometime.

[youmyvoicebox]

einstein's dreams is magical. time turns into blackbirds.

[calliopealive]

it's one of my all time favorite books.

[bonemuseum]

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life Pater, The Renaissance

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

I do not know which particular magnificent details I would choose to define the essence of my spirit. Doubtless I love the decorative because I sense in it something that resembles the substance of my soul Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

What life was there, was mine,

now and again to lay
one hand on a warm brick

and touch the sun's ghost
with economical joy,

now and again to name
over the bare necessities

Rich, from Necessities of Life

[polyatomics]

Oh, you. I cannot send any poetry or quotes your way because most of mine come from you and Alisha.

[abraxa]

"people like to be settled. only to the extent that they are unsettled is there any hope for them."- emerson

"what matters is that you know the names of songs, and stars."- david woo

blue hour by carolyn forche
overlord by jorie graham

those are my two favorite poetry books of late. and of course, lure by nils michals.

how are you, child? we haven't spoken in so long. are you still in school? how is it going? how is the family? i miss you.

[bonemuseum]

the first quote I posted, I remember not paying attention to the lecture I was in, and then hearing it and rushing to write it down thinking I had to tell you about it at some point.

[polyatomics]

what classes are you taking? or have you taken?

[abraxa]

it is magnificent.

[just_happening]

You will find many quotes and glorious poetry within the books of Anne Sexton.

Suggested reading:

Play It As She Lays- Joan Didion
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
Cannery Row- John Steinbeck
Any book by Ray Carver

[polyatomics]

In eighth grade I tried to read The Pearl by Steinbeck but I just couldn't do it and I was convinced I absolutely despied him; however, I just finished The Grapes of Wrath and I found that I liked him so much more this time around. I will have to remember to read Cannery Row.

And have you read The Joke by M. Kundera? I have a copy but have never read it.

[xopinkxo]

excuse me, as i am a lurker

but steinbeck's east of eden is divine... like anchors & anthologies, bubbles & biopics, cashmere & confabulation!

pleasepleaseplease look into it.

[polyatomics]

why thank you, i'll put that on my list!

mmm no excuses needed!

[plusdesouvenirs]

I had over prepared the event

[polyatomics]

I am writing a paper on Pound and Eliot right now and it all reminds me of you.