March 2011
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Tuesday Poem: Tweezers by Orhan Veli
Neither the atom bomb, Nor the London conference; Tweezers in one hand, A mirror on the other; Does she care about the world? ---- Other poems posted on a Tuesday here at the Tuesday Poem blog.. and this is my 300th post here...have a good day :)
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“I want to have you together, you and Delacroix, he said to me”
– Renoir (conversation on the occasion of painting Mlle Chocquet’s portrait)
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“Even in Kant’s time the nature of art was changing. The rules of Kant’s theory...”
– hahaha can’t believe I wrote this…its terrible…
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“Darren Wershler-Henry has observed that, for young poets like us, the conceit of...”
– Christian Bök
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Tuesday Poem: Saturn's Riddle by Fiona Sampson
(from ‘Solomon and Saturn’)
What wonder travels this world
unstoppably, raising foundations,
raising tears, often victorious?
Not star nor stone nor ostentatious gem.,
water nor wild beast, deflect it one whit,
but into its hand go hard and soft,
small and great. Into it
every single earth-dweller, air-skimmer, sea-swimmer -
three times thirteen thousand of them -
will fall.
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It’s your bicycle bells And your Rembrandt swells You’re children like And still breathing It’s your look of loss When you’re coming across Makes me feel like a thief When you’re bleeding Duchess, Duchess Light up your candles for me Duchess, Duchess Put all the love back in me It’s the Persian sea Running through your veins You shed your names ...
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Asymptote: Go to the fava bean →
asymptotejournal:
A week ago, AM shared her finds from the Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs. Reading that entry brought a smile to my face and took me back to this lovely guide from Lonely Planet that someone had given me, called “Say What?”, that promises to help you “talk like a local without putting your…
February 2011
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