February 2012
18 posts
Sharing Poetry: Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences... →
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Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving…
“Here is a handful
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope,...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Mushrooms” in Selected Poems: Volume 2
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
– Alfred Eisenstaedt (via life)
“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via human-voices)
