December 2008
9 posts
“Resurrection of the little apple tree outside
my window, leaf-
light of late...”
– Franz Wright, On Earth
“The greatest joy and the highest priviledge of a creative editor is to touch...”
– M. Lincoln Shuster, co-founder of Simon & Shuster
“It is impossible to imagine a more generous enclosure — a household...”
– Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
“…our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and...”
– Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America
“Some people need one thing, but we green youths need another, we need first of...”
– Ivan (Dostoevsky), Brothers Karamazov
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“This coffee falls into your stomach … sparks shoot all the way up to the...”
– Honore de Balzac
“Stretching out with all her soul towards a pure and absolute goodness of which...”
– From the forward to Simone Weil’s “Gravity and Grace”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.”
– Soren Kierkegaard