January 2012
Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah... →
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“אלי, אלי
שלא יגמר לעולם
החול והים
רשרוש של המים
ברק השמים
תפילת האדם
My...”
– “Walk to Caesaria” aka “Eli, Eli” by Hannah Senesh, one of my favorite poets. (via goma0nigiri)
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been...”
– Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper
YOU HEARD RIGHT. PARATROOPER. (via odetomyday)
Blessed is the Match- Hannah Szenes
tonis-le-mot-juste:
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honour’s sake.
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling fame.
“When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter...”
– Elsa Binder, 30 January 1942, from Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (edited by Alexandra Zapruder)
Elsa Binder wrote eloquently and passionately about the destruction of the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Poland. Her diary was found in a ditch on the way to an execution...
“Adagio of islands, O my Prodigal”
– Hart Crane in “Voyages” (1926)
An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori
nyrbclassics:
Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol got a great review in the British magazine The Spectator’s “Book Club”. It’s a bit of a staff favorite here as well :
The novel is a sensuous celebration of the variety and detail of life, and of the distinctive perceptions of childhood, which readers will be inclined to compare with Proust. It is a profound reflection on a...
"Serve God, Love Me, and Mend"
Dear God, that line was a heartstopper, yeah. Nice gif!
melissaanelli:
When I saw the David Tennant/Catherine Tate version of “Much Ado About Nothing,” one line really zapped me. “Serve God, love me, and mend.” It was something about the delivery, the look between them, the calm mastery Tennant had of the language that made it so moving…
So naturally after I bought the video of the...
“London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in...”
– Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
Happy birthday to the man who wrote one of the greatest openings ever!
“What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop...”
– Anne Carson, “Kinds of Water” in Plainwater (adapted from everythingwillburn)
