“Thanks again for the knife, which is a little gem. My husband, I regret to say, has snitched it for his own use—cutting the lemon peel the proper thinness for the six o’clock Martini—but it will be mine while he is in California.”
Avis DeVoto
more infosource: April 3, 1952 letter to Julia Child in As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010), 9–10.
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category: cooking, knife, lemon, martini, tool
medium: letter
“Any minute now I will make a knife out of a cloud.”
W. S. Merwin
more infosource: “October,” in The Second Four Books of Poems (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993), 32–33.
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category: cloud, creativity, knife, poetry, transformation, writing
medium: poetry
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