“Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.”
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“Now she is a good example of a sentence without words.”
—Gertrude Stein, from “More Grammar Genia Berman,” in Portraits and Prayers (1934)
Mermaid ~ Raul Cohen
NY Times Book Review Illustration
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“Draw me in your footsteps, let us run.” — Song of Solomon 1:3
And so you shudder now
and then from grief. The darkness, being real,
is clearly visible.
—Joseph Brodsky, from Gorbunov and Gorchakov in Collected Poems
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Wilfrid Blunt, Tulipomania, King Penguin Book no. 44 (Hardmondsworth: Penguin, 1950).
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“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” — Paolo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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A noun is the name of anything.
Who has held him that a noun is the name. A noun is a name. Who has held him for a thing that a noun is a name of a thing.
A dislike.
A noun is a name of everything.
A king a wing. A thing a wing.
—Gertrude Stein, from “Bernard Fay” in Portraits and Prayers (1934)
Vera and Vladimir Nabokov, chasing butterflies, Ithaca, New York, September 1958. Photograph by Carl Mydans for LIFE Magazine.