“Our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ‘invisibly,’ in us. We are the bees of the invisible.” —Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter explaining...
“I never wanted to be well-rounded, and I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut...
“Whenever I’ve tried to free my life from a set of circumstances that continuously oppress it, I’ve been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I...
“kiss the snake so you that you may gain the treasure” —Rumi from “Love is like a Lawsuit” to go deep just dive or take a diving class or sign up for a diving class, but never go or read a catalog about diving classes or watch people dive...
“After that life in the singing dream, I woke, and feared he felt he was the human sleeper, and I the glittering panther holding him down, and screaming.” —Sharon Olds, “Not Quiet Enough”, from the book Stag’s Leap, c. 2012 I bought...
In the Body of the World I am an Emotional Creature Insecure at Last Necessary Targets The Good Body The Vagina Monologues A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and a Prayer The Men Who Killed Me —titles of books by Eve Ensler ITCHY BOOK REVIEW: Boston Adventure by Jean...
