October 2009
4 posts
“Animal” by Karen O. and the Kids,...
“Your name is like a golden bell
Hung in my heart; and when I think of you,
I...”
– Cyrano, Act III of Cyrano de Bergerac
September 2009
7 posts
“‘I was also afraid of committing a mistake…’
I like the idea...”
– Ghandi quote, from Emma’s blog
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“History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
– Mark Twain
Monarch Butterflies
Just like birds, monarchs migrate south for the winter, traveling between 1,200 and 2,800 miles (at a rate of about 50 miles a day) to their wintering spot in central Mexico. It’s thought that they use an internal sun compass to find the way.
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
– Edward R. Murrow
“Vernors is a flavored golden ginger ale aged for four years in oak barrels...”
August 2009
9 posts
“i carry your heart with me ( i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it...”
– e.e. cummings, Poem 92 (of 95)
“You do not come
On this moonless night.
I wake wanting you.
My breasts heave...”
– Ono No Komachi
The Love Poems of Marichiko
The Love Poems of Marichiko were originally published as if they had been written by a young Japanese woman and Rexroth had merely translated them. In reality there was no such person as Marichiko — the poems were all written by Rexroth himself, projecting himself into a feminine persona, during the same period that he was translating several volumes of Chinese and Japanese women poets.
“Making love with you
Is like drinking sea water.
The more I drink
The...”
– Marichiko
“I’ve been trying so hard to become an idea.”
– Matthew Sadler
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world over, it became a butterfly.”
– Anonymous
June 2009
1 post
