December 2010
7 posts
The first step I say awed me and pleas’d me so much,
I have hardly gone...
– from Beginning My Studies by Walt Whitman
The journey was a long one
I lost some feathers on the way
And my illusions...
– from From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem...
– from Mayakovsky by Frank O’Hara
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are...
– from Frank O’Hara’s Meditations in an Emergency
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own soul.
– Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961)
The father of our country had at least 99... →
American Hustlers
The surprisingly parallel lives of George Washington and Jay-Z. :)