January 2011
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“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very...”
– Elie Wiesel (via libraryland)
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“We learn to see and speak, as children, primarily by imitation. The artist is...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin - The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (HarperCollins, 1989).
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“I think a poem, when it works, is an action of the mind captured on a page, and...”
– Anne Carson (via theparisreview)
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“There are many serious ways to say nothing, but only poetry is true.”
– Manoel de Barros (via xineann)
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“The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer....”
– Carson McCullers ~ from The Mortgaged Heart (Houghton, 1971, 2005)
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“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”
– Truman Capote (via libraryland)
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“Why do I read?
I just can’t help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh...”
– Gary Paulsen (Shelf Life: Stories by the Book)
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“I’ve never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but...”
– Joyce Carol Oates - from The Faith of a Writer - Ecco, 2003
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“I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. ~ I believe...”
– Joyce Carol Oates - from The Faith of a Writer - Ecco, 2003
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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string...”
– Alberto Manguel (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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A Perfect Commotion: Virginia, January 25** →
aperfectcommotion:
I can’t read. I can’t write. Everything is gone from me. I hear voices
in stones, in my coat pocket, in the River Ouse; I release friends, several, intimate friends, few, those I have loved, fewer, those who know my heart, none. What I want to say is I owe you my heart, for that look that combines a thousand fields whispering. And for such happiness, such madness, such...
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“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place...”
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Judith Thurman (via iheartloons)
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“There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
I bite it.”
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Anne Sexton, from “Snow” (via aubade)
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“That the writer labors to discover the secret of his work is perhaps the...”
– Joyce Carol Oates - from The Faith of a Writer - Ecco, 2003
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“We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via wordpainting)
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“The idea is to write so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and...”
– Maya Angelou (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via artofnarrative)
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“You become a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the...”
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Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook - quote via The Cath in the Hat
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Slow Muse - Cognitive Tools →
allomelo:
One of my favorite spots on the web is the annual World Question* presented by The Edge. Each year a provocative question is posed, then answers flow in from every profession and point of view. It is a fascinating cross section of thinking, perspectives and insights.
The question being asked for 2011 is:
What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?
The...
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Poem: For Librarians →
artofnarrative:
librarianista:
For Librarians by Hans Ostrom
Imagine you can consider all ideas And images represented by all words And numbers in all libraries worldwide. Open the book of this consideration. Touch the paper. See the illustration Of you, reading, when you were ten In your local library. Turn Several pages. Now read how you And that other person ignited romance In, of all...
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“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding and, under ideal conditions,...”
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E. B. White (via breathingbooks)
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“Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (liquidnight)
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