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“The sun is a thief: she lures the sea
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.”
― Pale Fire
and robs it. The moon is a thief:
he steals his silvery light from the sun.
The sea is a thief: it dissolves the moon.”
― Pale Fire
“Now a door slams. The kids have rushed out for the last play, the mothers are planning and slamming in kitchens, you can hear it out in swish leaf orchards, on popcorn swings, in the million-foliaged sweet wafted night of sighs, songs, shushes. A thousand things up and down the street, deep, lovely, dangerous, aureating, breathing, throbbing like stars; a whistle, a faint yell; the flow of lowell over rooftops beyond; the bark on the river, the wild goose of the night yakking, ducking in the sand and sparkle; the ululating lap and purl and lovely mystery on the shore, dark, always dark the river's cunning unseen lips murmuring kisses, eating night, stealing sand, sneaky.”
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“Scheppend kunstenaar, dat valt niet mede. Ik sprak heel vroeger wel eens vader Klatser die aan een betere samenleving bouwt, als hij nog niet in zijn hese geschreeuw gestikt is, tenminste. Hij zei een keer tegen me: 'Weet jij, wat of heel moeilijk is om te schilderen?' 'Nee?' 'Een s-s-s-sneeuwlandschap. En weet je wat of ook heel erg moeilijk is om te schilderen? Een z-z-z-zonsondergang.' (Hij stotterde ook nog) 'En weet je, wat ik nou aan het schilderen ben?' (Sprakeloze stilte) 'Een z-z-z-zonsondergang in een s-s-s-sneeuwlandschap.”
― De taal der liefde
― De taal der liefde
“My eyes were glued on life
and they were full of tears.”
― Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
and they were full of tears.”
― Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a low suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional, dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist. there might be a line of spaced trees silhouetted against the horizon, and hot still noons above a wilderness of clover, and claude lorrain clouds inscribed remotely into misty azure with only their cumulus part conscpicuous against the neutral swoon of the background. or again, it might be a stern el greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer, and all around alternating strips of quick-silverish water and harsh green corn, the whole arrangement opening like a fan, somewhere in kansas.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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