February 2012
11 posts
“I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to...”
– Susan Sontag
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...”
– William Butler Yeats
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech
The Quiet World
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover, proudly...
January 2012
67 posts
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have...”
– Thomas Hardy
“What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely...”
– Woody Allen
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a...”
– -rumi
