Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 52

powells:“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when...

powells:

“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want ― oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ― Mark Twain (http://powells.us/11I5mip)

"What you don’t know about writing is also a form of knowledge, though much harder to grasp.Try to..."

“What you don’t know about writing is also a form of knowledge, though much harder to grasp.

Try to discern the shape of what you don’t know and why you don’t know it,

Whenever you get a glimpse of your ignorance.

Don’t fear it or be embarrassed by it.

Acknowledge it.

What you don’t know and why you don’t know it are information too.”

- Verlyn Klinkenborg (via mttbll)

All of my mid-semester evaluations for my students

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flyoverart: Kyle Herrington | Sculpture |...

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 Kyle Herrington | Sculpture | tumblr

 Indianapolis, Indiana

"He simply wasn’t all there. He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one,..."

“He simply wasn’t all there. He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending he was the whole.”

- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (via ink-piss)

artchipel:Marcin Sobas (Poland)The Polish photographer Marcin...

artchipel:

Marcin Sobas (Poland)

The Polish photographer Marcin Sobas has a body of work that speaks to a photography maxim: Nature is still the best subject. The endless cycle of birth, growth, death and rebirth; the arc of the sun and the moon in a 24 hour period; the play of clouds and fog as both filter and subject… Sobas benefits from his sense of timing and his appreciation for Nature as Subject, to capture the right light, the right fog and the right angle, and then, make some places look magical. (cf. artist interview by Chase Jarvis)

[more Marcin Sobas | artists found at vurtual]

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"In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and..."

“In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we’re done with it, we may find - if it’s a good novel - that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little… But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.””

- Ursula K. Le Guin (via unnursvana)

nevver:Scratch the sky

Matt Molloy



Matt Molloy



Matt Molloy



Matt Molloy

nevver:

Scratch the sky

mttbll:“Ah, the suburbs. I’ve found that living somewhere that...

mttbll:

“Ah, the suburbs. I’ve found that living somewhere that reminds me of childhood is important to me. Why? There are, I have learned, theories that say childhood is far more vivid than any experience one could have later in life. Seeing, feeling, smelling, hearing, and tasting in childhood reach the level of depravity, this theory says.

Some call this rapture, others bliss. I cannot say that my depravity has ever reached the level of happiness, but I do find that when my life is as orderly as it was at home, I am closest to fine.” 

—The Complete Tales of Merry Gold by Kate Bernheimer