A selection of poems by James Dickey on his birthday: In the Tree House at Night And now the green…
“A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn’t got a chance.”
Happy birthday, Muriel Spark! Here are some quotes from her writing: “It is impossible to repent of love. The sin…
“I express hopelessness.”
Happy birthday, Takashi Murakami! 57, today! “I really love American culture. That’s why I come here—I’m always looking for ways…
“The reason why poetry once lost favor with the more judicious”
“Now, commendation and its opposite being analogous as regards effects, we cannot easily deny the fact that although the law…
“One may say that the human ability to understand may be in a certain sense unlimited. But the existing scientific…
William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”
After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by D. A. Powell
“Mrs. Forrester chatted to Niel with her face turned toward him, holding her muff up to break the wind.” —from…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ben Spivey
And when the pains finally grew sharp I thought that death should come like that—like childbirth, into the birth of…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ted Pelton
“I had a drunk on like seven Swedes.” —Raymond Chandler Have been trying off and on for two weeks…