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Tag Archives: letters
Cherish Power (Emily Dickinson)
“Cherish Power – dear. Remember that it stands in the Bible between the Kingdom and the Glory, because it is wilder than either of them.” –Emily Dickinson from letter #631
from “Second Letter” (Jack Spicer)
“Things fit together. We knew that–it is the principle of magic. Two inconsequential things can combine together to become a consequence. This is true of poems too. A poem is never by itself alone.” –Jack Spicer from “Second Letter”
from “First Letter” (Jack Spicer)
“Muses do exist, but now I know that they are not afraid to dirty their hands with explication – that they are patient with truth and commentary as long as it doesn’t get into the poem, that they whisper (if … Continue reading
“Words are what sticks to the real…” (Jack Spicer)
“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing … Continue reading
Yours Ever: People and Their Letters
[CC licensed image by a.drian] As an enthusiastic snail-mail letter writer—you might remember those paper things, physically transported in little paper sleeves with “stamps” on them– Thomas Mallon’s new book Yours Ever: People and Their Letters looks fascinating (as does … Continue reading
on Painstalling (Samuel Beckett)
"I sat on the wharf and watched the little steamers dipping their funnels to get under the bridge, and it opening for a big boat to go under. Tres emouvant. That’s all I do now–go out about 2 and find … Continue reading
on Language as a Veil (Samuel Beckett)
“More and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it. Grammar and style! To me they seem to have become … Continue reading
from Letters of John Keats
I will call the world a School instituted for the purpose of teaching little children to read–I will call the human heart the hornbook used in that School.
Wild Perfection (Stanley Kunitz)
“America, it’s true, either spoils you with success or withers you with neglect. What other morality has the artist but to endure? The only ones who survive, I think, beyond the equally destructive temptations of self-praise and self-pity, are those … Continue reading
Letter Writing Minus Hillary
From a brief Slate article on the recently released, forty-year old letters from Hillary Clinton to a college friend: …the letters also filled me with nostalgia for letter-writing itself. Though I won’t pretend that this activity is morally preferable to … Continue reading
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Forever (Ugly) Stamps
Heidi links to a LifeHacker article about the new “Forever Stamps” which can be purchased for 41 cents but will remain good for sending first-class letters “forever” (or until the USPS goes belly-up). Now, I understand that this is a … Continue reading
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