Thursday, June 28, 2012

delicious alternatives

(via Toledo blade dot com)

"Nor magic countersigns prevail
Nor airy sacrifice." --Auden


"When it was low tide on earth it was high tide in the land of ghosts." --Haeberlin & Gunther, The Indians of Puget Sound (1930)

"...occasional returns from the bottom to the surface of things to see who or what might be thinking, who or what might be willing to join hands or tentacles or fins on the deck of this wreck, who or what might be willing to get wrecked together — ‘wreck,’ from the Old English wrecca, wretch and exile, but also, adventurer, also, to be driven, to keep going, even nowhere."

"Full many a mangled trunk I try'd, to see
Which carcase with the head would best agree." --Rowe's Lucan

(via glogster dot com)

"Gravedigger, it is fine to contemplate the ruins of cities, but finer far to contemplate the ruins of men!" --Lautréamont

Was ist krieg? Der Totentanz ist krieg.


"After the breath stops, the words listen." --Spicer

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