the only thing I could imagine piercing me todayis the long cat-vomit pink, stretch, of sky -- and after driving home, the awareness of the earth that would notaccept or come into me, the places I will not go because they are outside, and I cannot? cannot! leave this bedroom, the walls bent in and… Continue reading poem: letter to myself
Tag: Franz Kafka
quote: i am made of literature
“I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.” ― Franz Kafka [quote from goodreads]
quote: the book must be the axe
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we… Continue reading quote: the book must be the axe
the last pavilion 