“Every word was once an animal.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Because it serves as epigraph to one of the…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Matt Bell
“It was like looking at a rock pile and trying to imagine an avalanche.” —from Guide, by Dennis Cooper …
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Zoe Zolbrod
“I didn’t, couldn’t, catch Sils’s eye—she was standing over with the sopranos—but it didn’t matter, I didn’t have to, because…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Roy Kesey
“A sentence is a length of awareness.” —William H. Gass, “Culture, Self and Style,” Habitations of the Word The…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Ken Sparling
“There was a wall.” This is the first sentence of THE DISPOSSESED by Ursula K. Le Guin, and the…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Laura van den Berg
“My mother was always surprised by time.” —Joy Williams, “Escapes” A beautiful sentence from an exquisitely heart-breaking story that…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Dawn Raffel
“The woman, who is me—why pretend otherwise?—wants to love a man she cannot have.” —The opening salvo of Diane Williams’s…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Gary Amdahl
“He projected himself all day, in thought, straight over the bristling line of hard unconscious heads and into the other,…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Andrew Borgstrom
“John’s red sow won’t go / out of labor so we stay all night / and John brings coffee and…