“Whether we’re from rural Texas, New York, the suburbs of Paris, wherever, the world comes to makes less and less sense the deeper we immerse ourselves into art.”
Rowan Ricardo Phillips discusses his new book of poetry, The Ground, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
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“Yet the pre-Internet novelists had an advantage over their successors in terms of textual output. Their supplementary writing — the journals and, in particular, the letters — complemented the novels and short stories in a way tweets and posts and even e-mails don’t.”
James Meek, author of The Heart Broke In (Oct 2012), on “Tolstoy’s Tweets” (The New York Times)
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I will gather your oldest friends at my home and we will have a conversation. You will hear us talking but when you come into the room we will stop talking.
From Cautionary Notes and Amelia Gray’s novel THREATS.
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“It is not enough to understand a true proposition; one must also feel the truth of it.”
Giacomo Leopardi, poet (via)
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