Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.
Matt Haig • The Humans
Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov,
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
The flush of the known universe is in him,
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
Fly to me, Pierre;—nay, I could tear what I now write,—as
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
people like Tranströmer and Ondaatje and Wisława Szymborska are touchstones for me. It’s a long list: George Seferis, Anne Carson, Charles Simic, Sharon Olds, Seamus Heaney: anyone who has found a way to sidestep conventional syntax.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On the shortness of life, what mastery requires, and how to overlap the things you love
Over and over, we are broken on the shore of life. Our stubborn egos are knocked around, and our frightened hearts are broken open—not once, and not in predictable patterns, but in surprising ways and for as long as we live.