Category: landscape

“Something touched his imagination for a moment” JB

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“life is very long, unless it is not.” – Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“It was far-reaching: this much she knew. It had layers and strata, like a landscape.

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trying to live as best they can in the presence of such enormous, distracting absences

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then he will step out, into the light, to inhabit the form of another” – Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet

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“… shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children

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This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.”

–Maggie Smith, Good Bones.

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“didn’t care for crowds—being in them, or whatever foolishness they tended to enjoy en masse”

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At the still point of mottled formations and a scruple of compassion.

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“I should wish to live many years, free from hates,
and make my verses, as the rivers
that moisten the earth, fresh and pure.
Lord, give me a path with trees and birds.”

-Alfonso Guillén Zelaya, translated from the Spanish by William George Williams.

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“rung upon rung laddering

across the unspeakable world

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while in the midst of horror
we fed on beauty—and that,
my love, is what sustained us.”

-Rita Dove, Transit.