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"Liquid"
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Date: 2004
Now your Pen shall be as liquid and infinite as your Mind as you complete 'Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets'!"
preview | full record— Wayne, Teddy
Date: 2006
"Back at Dayton Chaminade High, Weber had begun intellectual life as a confirmed Freudian--brain as hydraulic pipe for mind's spectacular waterworks--anything to confound his priest teachers."
preview | full record— Powers, Richard (b. 1957)
Date: 2007
"And when and idea for additional information to throw into a discussion came into my head, it often evaporated when I was on the point of saying it."
preview | full record— Engel, Howard (b. 1931)
Date: 2008
"There is tremendous precision and gentleness in the practice: the precision of noticing what is happending, the waterfall of thought; the gentleness of being nonjudgmental, not rejecting the busy mind. Over time, acknowledging that we are thinking and coming back to breath, the waterfall gradual...
preview | full record— Barker, Phil
Date: 2008
"When people begin to practise mindfulness they are usually surprised to discover how busy the mind is: like a waterfall, one thought tumbling after the next."
preview | full record— Barker, Phil
Date: 2009
"These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through."
preview | full record— Nicholls, David (b. 1966)
Date: Jul 18, 2009
"I can only wonder what it's like to be so well rested, to know that the deep pool of sleep within you -- the somnifer, I suppose it's called -- is filled to the brim."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: 2009, trans. 2012
"Feelings are like water, they always adapt to their surroundings."
preview | full record— Knausgaard, Karl Ove (b. 1968)
Date: March 29, 2010
"Drip, drip, drip — that’s what insomniac thoughts feel like, a leaky faucet behind the eyes."
preview | full record— Marino, Gordon
Date: Winter 2011
"I'm doing a reading that night and so is Jean but in different places and I don't know how to reach her or Andrew or the vague choir of boys swimming in my mind or why I even need to reach the vague choir (except for another fix of beauty)."
preview | full record— Klein, Michael
