I will write in the notebook every day. [Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books]
– Susan Sontag in, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks from 2015]
E.B White – On Writing
A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
Thomas Carlyle – On Books
In books lies the soul of the whole past time when the articulate audible voice of the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream
– Inscription on the Mitchell Library building, Sydney New South Wales, Australia from The Hero as Man of Letters by Thomas Carlyle, 1840
Tristan Tzara – On Writing
‘Vigour and thirst, emotion in response to the formation which is neither to be seen nor to be explained… a will to the word: a being on its feet, an image, a construction that is unique and fervent, of a deep colour, intensity, communion with life.’
Tristan Tzara – in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry: 1820-1950, Edited, Translated and with Introductions on the poets by William Rees
“I see drawing as thinking, as evidence of thinking, evidence of …” — Art of Quotation
“I see drawing as thinking, as evidence of thinking, evidence of going from one place to another. One draws to define one thing from another. Draws proportions, adjusts scale. It is impossible to paint without drawing.” Vija Celmins, painter, draftsman, Latvian, American
via “I see drawing as thinking, as evidence of thinking, evidence of …” — Art of Quotation
Surrealist Women: Leonora Carrington — cakeordeathsite
An exceptional artist and in my opinion an even better writer Leonora Carrington was the inspiration for many of Max Ernst masterpieces, notably The Robing Of the Bride (see A Week of Max Ernst: Friday) and was in many aspects the archetypal Femme-Enfant of Surrealist desire; a dubious honour that Carrington, as one of the […]
Women in Translation Month 2018 — the [blank] garden
Hello, folks! It’s that time of the year again! Meytal over at the Biblibio blog is hosting the Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) in August. The event aims to encourage readers, reviewers, publishers, and translators to explore more books written by women writers in translation. Here you can find a FAQ on the event. Here and here Meytal compiled very useful lists of books. Here you can find my […]
Louise Bourgeois – On Childhood
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois in Destruction of the Father Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997.
Fernando Pessoa — The Vale of Soul-Making
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses… If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And […]
A Skeleton Plays Violin (Georg Trakl) — Jildy Sauce
A Skeleton Plays Violin By Georg Trakl Translated by James Reidel Seagull Books, 2017 ISBN: 9780857424297 Though sometimes described as a war poet, Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was only coincidentally so: that was where and when he died. This book, the third and final volume of James Reidel’s rendering of Trakl’s poetry into English, is by […]
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