#grace frick

[hayleylovesjessica]

The Farrar, Straus and Giroux "80th Anniversary Special Editions," designed by Alex Merto and Charlotte Grimm.

🔸Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 🔸Slouching Towards Bethlemen by Joan Didion 🔸The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 🔸The Sabbath by Abraham Joshua Heschel; illustrated by Ilya Schor 🔸Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 🔸The Collected Stories by Grace Paley 🔸On Photography by Susan Sontag 🔸Omeros by Derek Walcott 🔸The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 🔸Memoirs Of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar; translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author

[chantssecrets]

Grace Frick and Margueritte Yourcenar, 1955, at Home at Petite Plaisance © Petite Plaisance Trust

[antigonick]

The sorcerer who pricks his thumb before he invokes the shades knows well that they will heed his call only because they can lap his own blood. He knows too, or ought to know, that the voices who speak to him are wiser and more worthy of attention than his own clamorous outcries.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Reflections on the Composition of the Memoirs of Hadrian, in Memoirs of Hadrian (trans. by Grace Frick)

[florizels]

What also reassures us is that sleep heals us of fatigue, but heals by the most radical of means in arranging that we cease temporarily to exist. There, as elsewhere to that blissful unconsciousness, and in accepting to be slightly less strong, less light, less heavy and less definite than our waking selves.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (trans. Grace Frick)

[yourdailyqueer]

Grace Frick (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 12 January 1903  

RIP: 18 November 1979

Ethnicity: White

Occupation: Translator and researcher

[dialogue-queered]

The Memoirs of Hadrian ( Mémoires de Hadrien), 1959/1983, tr Grace Frick, Penguin, Harmondsworth.

[thefoxhuntingman]

But books lie, even those that are most sincere.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

(translated by Grace Frick)

[florizels]

I grant that the most perfect repose is almost necessarily a complement to love, that profound rest which is reflected in two bodies.

Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian (trans. Grace Frick)