Rabolas's Blog: at sixes and sevens, page 317

bookmania: londonbooks: Osterley Bookshop, TW7. This is the...

bookmania:

londonbooks:

Osterley Bookshop, TW7. This is the first bookshop I’ve visited that sells eggs… 1967 saw this singular installation open in the site of the old Osterley Park railway station. Once you’ve re-clenched your jaw from oggling the period features it’s possible to start taking in the stupendous array of secondhand titles, antiquarian tomes and souvenirs of all kinds adorning each square inch of the place. 19th and early 20th century postcards, rocking horses, practical jo...

proseandpassion: (nagymiira)

proseandpassion:

(nagymiira)

"Books. Cats. Life is good."

“Books. Cats. Life is good.”

- T.S. Eliot (via bookmania)

"Il poeta ha una nozione più o meno confusa del proprio dono."

“Il poeta ha una nozione più o meno confusa del proprio dono.”

- René Daumal, Poesia nera e poesia bianca (da La conoscenza di sé)

mignonne-allons-voir-si-la-rose: bartleby-company: Fernando...

mignonne-allons-voir-si-la-rose:

bartleby-company:

Fernando Pessoa(via Pinterest)

Fernando Pessoa
La valeur des choses n'est pas dans la durée, mais dans l'intensité où elles arrivent.
C'est pour cela qu'il existe des moments inoubliables, des choses inexplicables et des personnes incomparables.

theparisreview: A good form rejection letter should be like a...

theparisreview:

A good form rejection letter should be like a good execution: swift, efficient, and demonstrating the kind of brutal indifference that marks true authority. Essanay Studios, a Chicago film company from the silent era, had it down to a science. They would mail prospective screenwriters a stock list of seventeen reasons their screenplays sucked, with a check mark next to the relevant one. E.g.: IDEA HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE, NOT INTERESTING, NOT HUMOROUS, and that old classic, ROBBER...

"Art is the most terrifying of human inventions."

“Art is the most terrifying of human inventions.”

- Richard Powers, The Art of Fiction No. 175
(via theparisreview)

"Adesso tornerai a scrivere poesie. Dici, parli, ma ha ragione Tonio Kröger. Impara a vivere sola –..."

“Adesso tornerai a scrivere poesie.
Dici, parli, ma ha ragione Tonio Kröger.
Impara a vivere sola – dentro di te.
Costruisciti.”

- Antonia Pozzi, dai Diari, 17 ottobre 1935 (via tremendousandsonorouswords)

"I do think many writers have what you might call a demonic nature."

“I do think many writers have what you might call a demonic nature.”

- Henry Miller, The Art of Fiction No. 28
(via theparisreview)

elguindilla: Serpientes en la biblioteca Savage Chickens

elguindilla:

Serpientes en la biblioteca

Savage Chickens