Consider me as one who loved poetry and persimmons ~ Masaoaka Shiki * High-altitude rose petals falling falling falling: the melody of a waterfall ~ Matsuo Basho * I remove my beautiful kimono: its varied braids surround and entwine my body ~ Hisajo Sugita * Standing beneath cherry blossoms Who can be strangers? ~…Read more »
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On Writing – Quotes #3
Posted by in author, books, Cheryl Strayed, quotes, writing The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your…Read more »
The Snowfall Is So Silent – a poem by Miguel de Unamuno
Posted by in author, Miguel de Unamuno, poet, poetry, writing The snowfall is so silent, so slow, bit by bit, with delicacy it settles down on the earth and covers over the fields. The silent snow comes down white and weightless; snowfall makes no noise, falls as forgetting falls, flake after flake. It covers the fields gently while frost attacks them with its sudden flashes…Read more »
On Writing – Quotes #2
Posted by in author, Madeleine L'Engle, quotes, writing A book too can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with…Read more »
