What's one favorite quote/passage/poem you hold close to you?
Sep 19, 2024
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i had a poetry professor a while back who LOVED found poetry and got me into the habit of writing down any phrase that i encounter and found funny or interesting or profound or wtv and anyway it's my most prized possession. after you start collecting quotes and phrases and words they line up in your notes app and it makes a beautiful profound collage of your life, currently the one in my phone is almost 200 lines long, but here are the first 30 or so lines for reference:
i was outside the matrix with watercolor at list
why is there rice? i didn’t eat rice??
i didn’t sell out i bought it
it was one o’clock forever
i’ve done seen rhode island
bring back the swan
wide eyed babe
you’re gonna carry that weight
ambiguous sentences
sun glitter
i have sick ambiance in my room bruh
and im like wait that’s the roofie
this must be what it’s like to have a child that’s stupid
free prometheus
is the wind taking my cigarette
i like his name, i will remember his name
i am trumps little baby boy
forrest into lumber farm
bad things come in threes so you should break a match
one of the worst parts of the pig farm
i didn’t know killing children was a jew thing
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Dec 24, 2024
I love this question! heres a few things I return to for inspiration.
Jim Jarmusch‘s Paterson to remember the small beauty in creating every day, for yourself if nothing else.
All of Mitski’s live performances, (and all her records tbh) to find the balance between raw vulnerability and studied theatrics.
Mary Oliver’s poems (especially wild geese) to remember the joy amidst pain.
Sylvia Plath’s poems (especially Lady Lazarus) to see how one’s own wallowing can become shared catharsis when turned into art (making work isn’t selfish even when its about ourselves).
Kelly Link’s short stories to find weirdness and playfulness (not everything has to have a moral or deeper meaning).
Mar 23, 2024
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i recommend it. i find it comforting to recite a poem i really like! i have “having a coke with you“ by frank o’hara memorized and it’s satisfying to hear its sonorous curves.
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