June 2019 – Page 2

“Write something beautiful. Write something strong.”

Happy birthday, John Edgar Wideman! 78 today! Here are some quotes from his writings and interviews. “Good writing is…

Happy birthday, Che Guevara! Here some quotes from the revolutionary. “I have lived magnificent days.” “If you tremble with…

Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We make out of the quarrel with others,…

Happy birthday, Fernando Pessoa! Here are some quotes from his writing. “To pretend is to know oneself.” “Could it…

This scene takes place early in the novel, soon after the ark known as ANGEL HOUSE, piloted by an…

Happy birthday, Djuna Barnes! Here are some quotes from her writing. “‘To think is to be sick.’” “‘An image…

Happy birthday, Yasunari Kawabata! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like…

Spring, mid-afternoon I turn on the laughter up & over Small fireballs warning drivers not to turn It gets…

Happy birthday, Susan Howe! 82, today! Here are some quotes from her writing. “Originality is the discovery of how…

A man who was married to someone who wasn’t me gave me an entire packing box of an old,…