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#charlessimic “The woman I love is a saint/ Who deserves to have/ People falling on their knees/ Before her in the Street/ Asking for her blessings./ Instead, here she is on the floor,/ Hitting a mouse with a shoe/ As tears run down her face.” #thesaint ...poem came to me because of a new expression I learned: Jamais saint n’a fait miracle dans son pays- a saint never performs miracles in his own country. #friendswithbalconies #paris #france #city #expat #americanwoman #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #vin #wine #trees #blushed

Allez les bleus! 🎉 #paris #france #worldcup2018 #worldcup #celebrate #french #citylife #inthestreets #americaninparis #placedaumesnil

I am reminded of a letter from Emily Dickinson to her dear friend Elizabeth Holland, she wrote: “Dear Sister, After you went, a low wind warbled through the house like a spacious bird, making it high but lonely. When you had gone the love came. I supposed it would. The supper of the heart is when the guest has gone.” #abeautifulsummer #friendship #summer #emilydickinson #cesarepavese #girlfriends #letters #literature #amreading #paris #france #lepavillondescanaux #bookshelf #dreamy #writingmorning #readingafternoon #writersofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #poetry #italianliterature #englishpoetry #cappuccino

An Art Déco museum (with bas-reliefs of ships, beasts, seas, & explorers) on the history of immigration in a neighborhood that feels so much like Prospect Park! My flower heart! 😁🌸 If you know me well, you know one of my favorite places is @thetenementmuseum (& the #dubai Women’s Museum) so this spot definitely satiated some NYC homesickness and #nyugallatin curiosities. #maps #history #immigration #immigrants #paris #france #artdeco #museo #americas #africa #palais #americangirl #bigeyebrows Some photo cred: @peglar ✨

#magritte #thesonofman “Although the root doesn’t know anything about the fruit, it feeds them.” #rilke 🍏🍓🍒 #surrealism #selfie #museedorsay #paris #france #poetry #howboutdemapples #renemagritte #rainermariarilke #museum

#supertramp #breakfastinamerica in #paris 🎼 ba-ba-ba-dow #diner #dinersdriveinsanddives #france #america #breakfast #dejeuner #writingmornings #goodbyestranger ‘I’m an early morning lover/And I must be moving on...’☀️🌳

Spent years studying Chinese language and culture, but nothing can beat Japan’s GNC (Gross National Cool)! #amreading #lostjapan by #alexkerr & it reminds me of #thelastdaysofoldbeijing by #michaelmeyer at #cafedeflore , a favorite of #zhouenlai among others. 🌼 #paris #france #bookshelf #cafe #flore #china #japan #bookstagram #americaninparis #prixdeflore #literature #summer2018 #中国 #周恩来 #1920s #literaryhistory

“Those endless bookshelves reflect back to us an ideal image, the image of the full range of the human mind...Help yourself, it’s free. Borrow, because as much as accumulation of material things impoverishes the soul, cultural abundance enriches it. My culture doesn’t stop where someone else’s begins. The library is the place where the greatest solidarity between humans takes place...the sinners, the unemployed, the cold weather refugees, they’re all around me here.” - #sophiedivry translated by #sianreynolds #thelibraryofunrequitedlove #libraries #librariesofinstagram #publicgood #publiclibrary #bookstagram #paris #france #borrow #lend #give #amreading #booksintranslation #french #english #librariansrule #havelessthings #buyless

#duolingo #poetry "Called the Siglo de Oro...the nature of the society when in which a golden age of the arts flourishes is, apparently, irrelevant. Free or repressive, secular or theocratic, contemporary or ancient--regardless of a nation's social organization or direction, or political system, an extraordinary, inexplicable explosion of creativity takes place during these unique periods and just as inexplicably it then fades away." #edithgrossman I have always found reading books with parallel text a great help in acquiring language, though you must first spend significant time with the language less familiar to you before consulting the corresponding page. #poetsofinstagram #poems #spanishpoetry #spanishrenaissance #spiritualpoetry #poetsofinstagram #sorjuanainesdelacruz #jorgemanrique #bookstagram #amreading #paris #france #europe #petrarchansonnet #troubadours #billycollins

Exciting afternoon! 🎉 #football #worldcup2018 #france #paris #americaninparis #redwhiteblue #cheers

Ah spontaneous people make me so happy! & homesick for NYC. 'You’re my end and my beginning/ Even when I lose I’m winning' #dancing #singing #paris #spontanious #metro #subway #johnlegend #walkingcities #nyc #commute #france #travel 🌸

“I was at a reading shortly after the election, and the poet (who was black) was reading gorgeous poems, which had some consistent and exciting flower imagery. A woman (who was white) behind me—who thought she was whispering to her neighbor—said ‘How can black people write about flowers at a time like this?’ I thought it was so absurd in a way that didn’t make me angry but made me curious. What is the black poet to be writing about ‘at a time like this’ if not to dissect the attractiveness of a flower—that which can arrive beautiful and then slowly die right before our eyes? I thought flowers were the exact thing to write about at a time like this, so I began this series of poems, all with the same title. I thought it was much better to grasp a handful of different flowers, put them in a glass box, and see how many angles I could find in our shared eventual demise.” —Hanif Abdurraqib #poetsofinstagram #americanpoets #poetry #flowers #blacklivesmatter #paris #france #amreading #writersofinstagram #hanifabdurraqib #poems #诗 #atimelikethis

Yellow roses 💛 "Oh now I'm going to find her, for my heart is full of woe, And we'll sing the songs together, that we sung so long ago We'll play the bango gaily, and we'll sing the songs of yore, And the Yellow Rose of Texas shall be mine forevermore." #flowers #paris #france #beauty #roses #folksong #city #americaninparis #yellowroseoftexas #willienelson

"...violence is first of all authoritarian. It begins with the premise: I have the right to control you...so many men murder their partners & former partners that we [USA] have well over a 1000 homicides of that kind a year--meaning that every 3 years the death toll tops 9/11 casualties, though no one declares a war on this particular kind of terror." & "One of the most exciting political movements on Earth right now is the Native Canadian indigenous rights movement, with feminist & environmental overtones, called Idle No More." - #rebeccasolnit author of a favorite book of mine #wanderlustahistoryofwalking & a former #nyuad first-year class summer reading book #aparadisebuiltinhell #nonfiction #feminism #amreading #train #environmentalism #endviolence #endviolenceagainstwomen #endvictimblaming #solnit #womenwriters #menexplainthingstome #thelongestwar

30-35km morning bike ride outside of the city...my favorite mode of transportation. On #ladycruisers made in San Diego 😎🚴🏻‍♀️🚴🏻‍♀️#thenetherlands #countryside #amsterdam #biking #cycling #bikes #nature #friends #dutch #vangogh

"Behind her came the man...who was he? What was he? Relation? Shipmate? Lover? No one could tell from his appearance...Most of all she liked the hibiscus, with its red flowers. The man wore a red hibiscus behind his ear." - #mariadermoût #shortstory #thesirens #dutch #literature Dermoût was born in the Dutch East Indies, on a sugar plantation, and moved to Holland for education. At the age of 63, she published her first book and another, the most celebrated, The Ten Thousand Things, in 1955. She and her husband spent their lives, as she wrote, exploring "little towns and wildernesses". #writersofinstagram #womenwriters #dutchindies #bookstagram #bookshelf #explores #loveandwildhearts #catsofinstagram #europeanliterature #proa #ships #sea

"In contrast [to readers in France, Germany, Russia, England, the United States, who can still read 'their' authors from the not-so-distant past], the Dutch language is constantly in the throes of change so radical and sweeping...many great works of 17th, 18th, & 19th-century Dutch literature has to be translated into modern Dutch to make them accessible to the average reader." - Joost Zwagerman. This anthology includes #nescio #campert #mulisch (a favorite of Pennsylvania's #johnupdike ). On Nescio's story, it "touches on the ultimate Dutch dilemma: the impossibility of reconciling, either in fact or imagination, the prosaic spirit of commerce with poetic dreams of a life that transcends the mores of trade and business." His story's boys remind me of Kerouac's boys, except there are no long long American roads for them to muse and havoc upon. #amsterdam #thenetherlands #iamsterdam #amreading #bookshelf #dutch #literature #shortstories #park #travelingwoman #bookstagram #kerouac

Stroll in the park after finishing our presentation on Experiential Learning at the European First Year Experience Conference at Utrecht University. ☀️🌳 #utrecht #uu #netherlands #efye2018 #highereducation #mynyuad #nyu #firstyearstudents #educators #experientiallearning #experientaltravel #womenworking #flower #flower_daily #sunlight #poetsofinstagram #walking #park #stroll #astilbe #falsegoatsbeard

13 years of correspondences (1863-76)! Out of print now, published in English 1921, found in @strandbookstore basement 2018. A real gem! 🌼 GF to GS: "It seems to me, on the contrary, that I have always lived! And I possess memories which go back to the Pharaohs. I see myself clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions and in many sorts of fortune. My present personality is the result of my lost personalities...many things would be explained if we could know our real genealogy. For, since the elements which make a man are limited, should not the same combinations reproduce themselves?" GS to GF: "But then you believe that one does not really die, since one lives again? If you dare say that to the 'Smart Set', you have courage and that is good. I have the courage which makes me pass for an imbecile, but I don't risk anything. I am imbecile under so many other counts." #utretch #bookshelf #amreading #georgesand #flaubert #letters #friendship #literature #literaryfriendships #instabooks #travelingwoman #madambovary #sentimentaleducation #dupin #femalewriters #usedbooks #worktrip #netherlands #amsterdam

#nyc "Writing about choosing solitude over company that does not nurture one's soul, Maya Angelou reminds us it is never lonesome in Babylon." - #bellhooks "There are not many public discussions on love in our culture right now...whenever a single woman over forty brings up the topic of love, the assumption, rooted in sexist thinking, is that she is desperate for a man. No one thinks she is simply passionately intellectually interested in the topic...most revered books on the topic are written by men." #allaboutlove #soul as #lifeforce #manhattan #flâneuse #risk #nonfiction #amreading #bookshelf #sunset #walking #mayaangelou #johnwelwood

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Samantha Neugebauer in 100 days 100 short stories read day one December 17, 2016 34 Words

100 days 100 short stories:: story eleven

story: At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners

author: Lauren Groff

year: 2014

where: in bed, engulfed in white blankets

note: a reread

a line: “He couldn’t bear the density or the lateness of her love.”

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