wisdom comes with winters

Don Paterson, Best Thought, Worst Thought: Aphorisms on Art, Sex, Work and Death

I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.” (The Critic as Artist, 1891. Oscar Wilde.)

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Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield Notebooks: Complete Edition  (via behindmyribcage)

Jeannine Hall Gailey, from “Remembering Philomel,” Becoming the Villainess (via lifeinpoetry)

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Margaret Atwood, Excerpt of Speeches for Dr. Frankenstein from Selected Poems 1965-1975 

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William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin 

Anne Carson