Theodore Roethke

Terry Pratchett - BOTD

"Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach." (2666) ✒️ Remembering #RobertoBolaño, #BOTD 28 April 1953.

"Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal." From "The Western Lands" by William S. Burroughs.

Roberto Bolaño - BOTD

Emily Bronte, Anton Chekhov, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, Bertolt Brecht, Raymond Carver, Saul Bellow, Annie Ernaux, Martin Amis...

I hate her so much

Virginia Woolf on people with intellectual disabilities: In a 1915 journal entry, Woolf wrote she saw "a long line of imbeciles" on a towpath near Kingston, writing that it was "perfectly horrible" and that "they should certainly be killed". This illustrates her engagement with eugenicist thought.

Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Lord Byron - Manfred, Act 2

Farewell, ye opening heavens! Look not upon me thus reproachfully-- Ye were not meant for me -- Earth! take these atoms! Lord Byron - Manfred, Act 1

his garb Is goodly, his mien manly, and his air Proud as a free-born peasant's, at this distance. Lord Byron - Manfred Act 1

File under “I’ll believe it when I see it”. 🤷‍♂️ #OpenAIPhone www.macrumors.com/2026/04/27/o...

My slumbers -- if I slumber -- are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men. Lord Byron - Manfred, Act 1

Poetic truth is not necessarily autobiographical. It is truth that goes beyond the immediate self, another life. -- Anne Sexton

I think Trump's role model is Jack Nicholson's Joker

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif.

Piet Mondrian meditating

Man those poems were worse than William Carlos Williams, and I thought he was the most inhuman

This is my belief

And I saw some poems in there, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it, that something that bad posing as poetry could axist in our times, or any, it is someone that says something, that's it

I don't want to rationalize things, this isn't like a thing that comes round every few periods of time, it comes once, we assess it, decide, and the rest is gay

Hecatombs, I was destroyed with grief for these people, I count my self lucky that I have no concideration for the past, as a personal rule

Yeah, I got in to Tumblir today, first time, a friend of mine suggested it yesterday. Lots of darkness there, lots of broken hears, hecatombs of broken hearts, as Shelley says

Shuddring she wove--nine days & nights Sleepless her food was tears William Blake

Zagreus, feeding his panthers, the turf clear as on hills under light. And under the almond-trees, gods, with them, choros nympharum. Gods, Hermes and Athene, As shaft of compass, Between them, trembled--- To the left is the place of fauns, sylva nympharum Ezra Pound, Canto XVII [Exc.]

Ah, the portrait of Beatrice Cenci, by Ginevra Cantofoli

There are similarities between P.B. Shelleys's "The Cenci" and Marlowe's Jew of Malta

The epigraph from T.S. Eliot's poems, from The Jew of Malta "Thou hast committed— / Fornication: but that was in another country, / And besides, the wench is dead"

Who read Boris Vian's short story "Red Fog"? There was a red fog and nobody could see anything. What most people did? They lined up for the baker's daughter This is amusing, ja?

I mean look at these lyrics "I am alone But adored by a 100, 000 more Then I said when you were the last. And I have known love, like a wh**e from at least 10, 000 more" In Greece I have only one friend that claims that he kissed 10.000 women

But I was not being sexist, I refered to futuristic morality

I can say these things, because I had seen Dandy Warhols, here, in Thessaloniki, many years ago, and the singer was also sexist. The sexist years

When was Brave New World set, I don't remember, was it anywhere close to now, was it earlier, no one was expecting this

And we all date Dandy Warhol's keyboardist, in a waiting list of less than two weeks, after which there is frustration, as Aldus Huxley ssys in the Brave New World

I, as a limo driver, with the power invested in me, declare that no more schools

#lunar people They can jump no need for trampoline when they go to the corner shop they don't take the car they can hurry Deborah but they can take their time it feels unreal like falling in feather pillows like having feathers, wings, it is inebriating feeling tipsy brings out the gypsy #vss365