“I cannot follow you where I will not go.”
Edmond Jabès
more infosource: The Book of Questions, Vol. 1 [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book] (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1991), 385.
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category: boundaries, follow, philosophy, school of life, self-care
medium: aphorism
“I think almost the last straw here though is the hairdresser, a nice big hearty Maine girl who asks me questions I don’t even know the answers to. She told me: 1, that my hair ‘don’t feel like hair at all.’ 2, I was turning gray practically ‘under her eyes.’ And when I’d said yes, I was an orphan, she said ‘Kind of awful, ain’t it, ploughing through life alone.’ So now I can’t walk downstairs in the morning or upstairs at night without feeling like I’m ploughing. There’s no place like New England.”
Elizabeth Bishop
more infosource: letter to Robert Lowell, dated Sunday, July 11, 1948, in Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), 42-43.
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category: alone, boundaries, hairdresser, Maine, New England, orphan
medium: letter
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