"The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?"
[Percy Bysshe Shelley]
notes from the underground: my attempt to keep the things I read in my brain
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
a lump in the throat
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
[Robert Frost]
a thousand times
"I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once."
[Thomas Wolfe]
July 9, 1937: On this day, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to Thomas Wolfe, advising his fellow author to write shorter novels. Wolfe responded with a letter eight times as long as Fitzgerald's.
[Thomas Wolfe]
July 9, 1937: On this day, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a letter to Thomas Wolfe, advising his fellow author to write shorter novels. Wolfe responded with a letter eight times as long as Fitzgerald's.
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
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