April 25, 2013


Walt Whitman’s handwritten poem “As of Forms”. The poem reads:
Their genesis, all genesis, They lost, all lost — for they include all. The earth and everything in it. The wave, the snake, the babe, the landscape, the human head, Things, faces, reminiscences, presences, conditions, thoughts — tally and make definite a divine indistinct spiritual delight in the Soul. 
Of the arts, as music, poems, architecture, outlines, and the rest, they are in their way to provoke this delight out of the soul, They are to seek it where it waits —for I see that it always patiently waits. Have you sought the inkling ? Have you wandered after the meanings of the earth? You need not wander; Behold those forms. 

Walt Whitman’s handwritten poem “As of Forms”. The poem reads:

Their genesis, all genesis,
They lost, all lost — for they include all. 
The earth and everything in it. 

The wave, the snake, the babe, the landscape, the human head, 
Things, faces, reminiscences, presences, conditions, thoughts — tally and make definite
a divine indistinct spiritual delight in the Soul. 

Of the arts, as music, poems, architecture, outlines, and the rest,
they are in their way to provoke this delight out of the soul, 

They are to seek it where it waits —
for I see that it always patiently waits. 

Have you sought the inkling ?
Have you wandered after the meanings of the earth? You need not wander;

Behold those forms. 

(Source: bookshavepores)

April 22, 2013
explore-blog:

Vladimir Nabokov’s United States immigration ID, from the fascinating story of how he became an American. 

explore-blog:

Vladimir Nabokov’s United States immigration ID, from the fascinating story of how he became an American

(Source: )

April 19, 2013

Moonrise Kingdom and letters/printed material

(Source: wednesdaydreams, via longdeadstar)

April 18, 2013
theparisreview:

Founding editor George A. Plimpton’s business card.
On the back was a subscription card, which had the option to purchase a lifetime subscription for $1,000. (Sorry, folks, no longer available.)

theparisreview:

Founding editor George A. Plimpton’s business card.

On the back was a subscription card, which had the option to purchase a lifetime subscription for $1,000. (Sorry, folks, no longer available.)

April 17, 2013

violentwavesofemotion:

Scrip pages of “After The Rehearsal” written by Ingmar Bergman.

“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.”

April 16, 2013
fixedrear:

Handwritten page of the classic children’s book The Little Prince by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery

fixedrear:

Handwritten page of the classic children’s book The Little Prince by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery

April 15, 2013

Autographed letter from Victor Hugo to the committee members for the statue of George Sand La Chatre

(Source: fuckyeah-victorhugo)

April 14, 2013

theparisreview:

David Foster Wallace’s notes from a tax accounting class. (via)

April 12, 2013

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne in which he writes: “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne in which he writes: “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”

(Source: violentwavesofemotion, via sharontates)

April 11, 2013
theparisreview:

From Elizabeth Bishop’s notebooks, a draft of “I introduce Penelope Gwin,” written when Bishop was about seventeen.

theparisreview:

From Elizabeth Bishop’s notebooks, a draft of “I introduce Penelope Gwin,” written when Bishop was about seventeen.