Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Posted 5 months ago
today’s word:
confluence \ˈkän-ˌflü-ən(t)s, kən-ˈ\ , noun
1. a coming or flowing together, a gathering at one point
2. the flowing together of two or more streams
3. the place of meeting of two streams
Posted 5 months ago
ok, i haven’t breezed through a book of fiction so good in a while. (i’m reading a lot of nonfiction right now.) there is a lot of lukewarm and not so lukewarm reviews on Amazon about this book, and i don’t really get it. i loved every word of it, the hilarious and the brilliant and the tragic and the touching.
-L
Posted 5 months ago
from Summer Storm by Dana Gioia
There are so many might have beens,
What ifs that won’t stay buried,
Other cities, other jobs,
Strangers we might have married.
And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different.
here’s the rest of this beautiful poem.
Posted 5 months ago
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Posted 5 months ago
You don’t know nights of love? Don’t
petals of soft words float upon your blood?
Are there no places on your dear body
that keep remembering like eyes?
-from an untitled poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted 5 months ago
We work in the dark. We do what we can. We give what we have. Our doubt is our passion. Our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
Posted 5 months ago
“In the summer
peaches the color of sunrise
In the fall
plums the color of dusk”
-from “The Beginning of September” by Robert Hass
Posted 5 months ago
today’s word:
numinous \ˈnü-mə-nəs, ˈnyü-\ , adj.
1. mysterious, supernatural
2. filled with a sense of supernatural presence; holy
3. spiritually elevated; sublime
(i can’t stop saying numinousness.)
CHILA Y LILA
