November 6, 2009
“From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade. There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.”
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/05/why-teenagers-are-growing-up-so-slowly-today.aspx

“From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade. There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.”

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/11/05/why-teenagers-are-growing-up-so-slowly-today.aspx

It’s hard to get the news from poetry, but people die everyday for want or lack of what is found there.
William Carlos Williams
suitep:

marjoree:

When the red, red robin comes bob, bob bobbin’ along, along…

suitep:

marjoree:

When the red, red robin comes bob, bob bobbin’ along, along…

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
November 5, 2009
And whenever I get off a good poem, that’s another crutch to keep me going. I don’t know about other people, but when I bend over to put on my shoes in the morning, I think, Christ-oh-mighty, now what? I’m screwed by life, we don’t get along. I have to take little bites out of it, not the whole thing.
Charles Bukowski
My talents are more valuable than yours, so I am paid accordingly, and therefore I am entitled to my bonus.
Jack Donaghy
From Italy.

From Italy.

From France.

From France.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Fulton J. Sheen
November 4, 2009
famouslywildly:

Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off reply.

famouslywildly:

Edmund Wilson’s all-purpose bugger-off reply.