Kim Dorman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow’s technicals called ruin. -Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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To my grandfather: Integrity and sweetness of temper. To my mother: The sense of reverence; generosity . . . the simplicity of her life. To my adoptive father: Gentleness. Marcus Aurelius, from the opening section of Meditations (tr. William Arrowsmith)

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Gary Snyder / The Back Country (this poem an old friend after how many years) https://t.co/jcMEDw9980

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traccia madreperlacea di lumaca "mother-of-pearl snail's track" -Eugenio Montale (quoted by Italo Calvino, "Lightness" / Six Memos for the Next Millennium)

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walk so we can see clear Dawn's golden arms harms . soon golden-sandaled Dawn . Queen Dawn -Sappho (tr. Dan Beachy-Quick, from Wind - Mountain - Oak: The Poems of Sappho)

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The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold." -Kenneth Rexroth, Classics Revisited

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‘The animals have little, but that little is useful and true.’ -Robert Linscott ed. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

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Beneath the first pillar on the left, in the Great Mosque of Cordova, the Arab Ibn Röchd has buried a ray of sunlight. -Evan S. Connell, Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

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b. the book should be heavy with things and flesh. -Albert Camus (a footnote in his posthumous novel, The First Man, tr. by David Hapgood)

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. . . they built a Parthenon of words: the Sanskrit language, since <sam skrta> means 'perfect'. -Roberto Calasso, Ardor (tr. Richard Dixon)

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