March 2011
clubcirca:
Circa Survive~ Spirit Of The...
Homework for my Contemporary American Poetry class
From Charles Olson’s essay entitled “Projective Verse”…
“It comes to this: the use of a man, by himself and thus by others, lies in how he conceives his relation to nature, that force to which he owes his somewhat small existence. If he sprawl, he shall find little to sing but himself, and shall sing; nature has such paradoxical ways, by way of artificial forms...
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via shouser)
“Date a girl who doesn’t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar....”
– “You Should Date An Illiterate Girl” by Charles Warnke
An interesting twist on a post I put up a few weeks ago…
