3 posts tagged “quotes”

On Childhood Journal-keeping:

"Journals were not in vogue when I was a child.  I kept a journal probably because Emily of New Moon kept a journal, not because I had any encouragement from teachers or family.  I also kept a journal because somebody gave me a pretty notebook.  I used to love to go into stationary stores and look at pretty notebooks, particularly when I was in France and saw the notebooks with the marbleized covers and little leather corners.  You couldn't see a notebook like that and not want to write in it."

                 "You left

      your heart behind, over there, back there

Sleepy slow Buddha, you catch up to me, ok?"

                              ~Joanne Kyger

                 While I

         am easily thrilled

by a strand of bright red ribbon

    marking my place

                     in my book.

The sky blends
into the water
at the horizon--

only the waves
only the waves

tell you there
is a lake there.

I am inside
the picture
window admiring
how beautiful.

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Perhaps you are one of those
who believe that the self is hateful.
Not me.

--Marcel Benabou

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To think more about the boy
         turn to page 44

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Perhaps you are one of those who
are afraid to imitate.  Not me. 
I continue to dream of the day
when even plagiarism will be recognised
as an eminently dignified sign of culture.

--Marcel Benabou

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From New Work by OULIPO:

Thoreau's friend throws a handful of
stones at the ice-covered pond, which
aided by a chance air pocket,
results in a pleasurable music.

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Einbildungskraft:  imagination