December 2011
136 posts
Dec 30th
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“Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my...”
– Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Dec 30th
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“Katherine’s eye is the poet’s eye.”
– Carol Rumens, in anarticle on Philip Larkin’s A Girl in Winter
Dec 30th
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“The morning when she came to England for the first time had been still and hot:...”
– Philip Larkin, A Girl in Winter
Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“What will survive of us is love.” -Philip Larkin, from “An Arundel Tomb”
Dec 28th
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“Simone de Beauvoir had a library card at the age of four.”
– “In Which We Prefer to Be Simone de Beauvoir”, by Ellen Copperfield (here)
Dec 28th
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In which we prefer to be Simone de Beauvoir →
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks
Dec 27th
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“The astonishing flowers, seething a blue I could barely see.”
– Mark Doty, from “Days of 1981” in Fire to Fire
Dec 27th
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“I must endure the timid sun.”
– “Lines Written In Dejection”, W. B. Yeats
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“What then will remain? I sigh, suffer, search, and my wanderings will never...”
– “Anxieties”, Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins)
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“When I cycled through the countryside and saw it all drenched in sunlight and...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 26th
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“The weight of roses falls silently from the walls.”
– “Hotel de la Paix”, Ingeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins)
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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“One night in June 1944, I tried to exorcize death with words. I excerpt some of my notes here, just as they came from my pen: ‘I was lying in bed, my stomach resting on the mattress, my knees and feet pressed against the ground. The silence of the night turned to a sound of water and rustling leaves, characteristic noises from my childhood. Death closed over me. A little patience...
Dec 26th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“People were happy and laughing, the sun shone, the streets had never looked...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life (who learnt to ride a bicycle during the war)
Dec 21st
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“One remark of Camus’s also moved me a great deal. I had lent him a typed...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Homie is where the heart is.”
– Marge Simpson (from a note written by my boyfriend)
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Well before the holidays I applied to the proprietors of the Hôtel de la...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 20th
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“This time we didn’t hurry things, but travelled in short stages, making...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“Pyrrhus et Cinéas was finished in July and accepted by Gallimard. She Came to...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 20th
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“I was nearly through with The Blood of Others by the beginning of 1943. It was...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“Colette Audry sometimes spoke of Simone Weil to me; and though I felt no great...”
– Simone de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life
Dec 19th
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