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accidie, n.
Physical or mental slothfulness, esp. as a condition leading to listlessness and lack of interest in life; apathy, lethargy, torpor;...
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The best thing about a death is its complete lack of impact on the universe. The animals, unchanged. The weather, unchanged. The stars still are....
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"Homage to a Government"
Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
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Tenebrae, Geoffrey Hill
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in a cold region where his...
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Luminous tips for writing and more
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Submissive to everything, open, listening
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Civilization consists in giving something a name that doesn’t belong to it and then dreaming over the result.
—Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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I think that for a long time, I was just a solipsist. It’s not really that I was not a feminist, or didn’t understand feminism—I didn’t understand...
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desert, n.2
1. An uninhabited and uncultivated tract of country; a wilderness: a. now conceived as a desolate, barren region, waterless and treeless,...