First Things First: Opening Words

[the-final-sentence]

A poem should not mean But be.

Archibald MacLeish, from “Ars Poetica” (via the-final-sentence)

[ryanpanos]

Theater Series | Hiroshi Sugimoto | Socks Studio

Starting in the late 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto took pictures of cinemas interiors and drive-ins with the aim of encapsulate the whole lenght of a movie in a single shot. He left the camera shutters open throughout the running of a movie and the glowing screen of the cinemas was left as a trace on each take. A somehow uncanny light resonates in the dark cinema halls. At a further glance, this central light ethereally underlines the rich architectural details of the theater interiors. You might want to confront Sugimoto’s work with Michael Wesely’s, a photographer that uses to take photographs featuringi  3 years long exposures: read “The passing of time“, (on Socks).

[vincentvangogh-art]

Coal Barges, 1888

Vincent van Gogh

[jericosilvers]

Do you think titles are really important when it comes to poetry?

[opening-words]

Titles are like the first glance, the first taste, the first touch. "Untitled" is nothing but laziness.

[citationneeded]

Peaches (The Presidents of the United States of America song)

Thematically, “Peaches” also seems to reference John Prine’s 1971 song “Spanish Pipedream” (“move to the country / build you a home. Plant a little garden / eat a lot of peaches”) though this might just be coincidence (anyone know for sure?).

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[sildrotha]

[nookirby]

Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

A dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

London 1760

[minutemanworld-blog]

Johnson’s dictionary has some unusual definitions in it. 

Distiller: One who makes and sells pernicious and inflammatory spirits.

Dull: Not exhilaterating (sic); not delightful; as, to make dictionaries is dull work.

Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

Far-fetch: A deep stratagem. A ludicrous word.

Pastern: The knee of a horse. (This is wrong. When Johnson was once asked how he came to make such a mistake, Boswell tells us he replied, ”Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.”)

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

Pension: An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.

To worm: To deprive a dog of something, nobody knows what, under his tongue, which is said to prevent him, nobody knows why, from running mad

I particularly enjoy his definition of dull. 

[eglantinebr]

He reminds me both of Jack Aubrey, and of Blackadder. Good company for him.

[lessthansix]

[runecestershire]

It keeps getting better!

[highwaydiamonds]

Oh lord, how I love this. It goes from strength to strength and then adds the Blackadder cherry on top. (Don’t care what anyone says, the best Blackadder series is the 18th C. series.)

[laughingsquid]

A Video of Fangirls Combined With Nature Documentary Narration by David Attenborough

[sagansense]

This man could narrate my life. And I would be completely OK with that.

[itsokaytobesmart]

"Only in very hard times, when the pride is extremely hungry, will issues of priority be settled by fighting."

This man could narrate me opening a jar of mayo and make it sound like Earth’s most epic struggle for existence.

[biilionaire-deactivated20120728]

[wordsnquotes]

You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Mark Twain (via wordsnquotes)

[giraffepoliceforce]

If people are really going to assume that guys with long hair are gay and girls with short hair are lesbians then I am going to assume that all bald men are actually eagles.

[yesimstacysmom]

I knew it, something about my dad just wasn’t adding up

[wordsnquotes]

I read a lot. I love books. If they came in a bottle, I’d be a drunk too.

Harvey, Alyxandra. Bleeding Hearts. (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

 Edgar Allan Poe (via wordsnquotes)

[cellularpeptide]

[tallvenusian-deactivated2018112]

#is this orange is the new black (x)

[magnass]

[wordsnquotes]

I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

Joe Dunthorne, Submarine (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.

Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via wordsnquotes)