February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
22 posts
La gente no cambia con los años, cambia con los...
“Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise…”
– Pablo Neruda
Yo siempre tropiezo más de dos veces con la misma...
“¿Sabes cuál es la forma más rápida de deprimirse? Pensar.”
– Charles Bukowski.
El sensacional destino incierto, tan inevitable y...
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel
Literary Lineups: Pre-1900s Authors vs. Post-1900s...
oldtimefamilybaseball:
Inspired by the folks over at Pitchers and Poets, I have assembled a pre-1900s team of authors and had them battle it out with a group of post-1900s. Who would win? First, the lineups:
The Pre-1900s Team:
C: Walt Whitman
He’s cranky, he’s crusty, he looks like a crusty old gold prospector, and he is absolutely perfect as the team’s catcher.
“I see great things in...
“Let’s hope
we can all
recover from
this.”
– Charles Bukowski
“Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a...”
– » How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)
“Esta necesidad de necesitarte,
este llamarte sin quererte llamar,
este...”
– Joaquín Sabina
Bye, bye 2011. My advice for 2012? You might have...
December 2011
12 posts
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski
La vida sin memoria no es vida.
La vida sin recuerdos…
2 tags
It's textbook.: Writing drunk →
Write drunk,
said Ernest Hemingway, and edit sober. Write drunk. Edit sober. Write drunk, drunk on the euphoria of rapidly clicking keys, and take in the sound— the sound of plastic, scraping against plastic, creativity, scraping against will, want, scraping against need, hands, scraping their way…
“I’m not sentimental, I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world...”
– Albert Pine
November 2011
8 posts
5 tags
: Get Drunk →
Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you sometimes happen to wake up on the…
“They say good girls love bad guys and that might be, but a bad girl with a good...”
– Murs
October 2011
21 posts
“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind,...”
– Charles Bukowski
Hoy no te salvas de que te olvide.
sociedaddepoetas:
Es lo que me digo todos los días…
Algo más terrible que el amor
sociedaddepoetas:
Es el olvido.