Someone spoke

'Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognised it.'

Dust, by Dorianne Laux

The Poetics of Space

'I am haunted by all
The space that I
Will live without you.'
Richard Brautigan

White Doors (1905) by Danish painter, Vilhelm Hammershoi

Note to self

Nabakov's memo to himself about a student.

So Cry All You Want

'The truth is you already know what it's like. You know the difference between the size and speed of everything that flashes through you and the tiny inadequate bit of it all you can ever let anyone know. As though inside you is this enormous room full of what seems like everything in the whole universe at one time or another and yet the only parts that get out have to somehow squeeze out through one of those tiny keyholes you see under the knob in older doors.'

David Foster Wallace, Oblivion
Moon Model by Johann Schmidt, Chicago, 1898

It helps...

'It helps, if you are a brazen, fearless, mesmerising, confessional poet, to be called Frank.'
Marcel Schwob
Film of Frank O'Hara reading 'Having a Coke With You'.

Sometimes... writing's like this (1)

Andre Kertesz

Das Glasperlenspiel

'Beginners learned how to establish parallels, by means of the Game's symbols, between a piece of classical music and the formula for some law of nature. Experts and Masters of the Game freely wove the initial theme into unlimited combinations.'

Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game