 From On Poetry & Craft
Checked quotes have been posted on LJ/DW.
"How to Write Like Somebody Else"
- "I suggest that the central critical problem remains: whether a real poem has been created. If it has, the matter of influence becomes irrelevant."
- "One of the great and early temptations is Beautiful Words."
"The Poet's Business"
- "Poet: a constant selectivity; a refusal to elucidate with a mass of detail."
- "Basis of poetry is sensation : many poets today deny sensation, or some have no sensation: the cult of the torpid."
- "A small thing well done is better than the pretentious failure. If a thing fails rhythmically it's nothing."
- "Inspiration: the important thing in life...
sep 22 2012 ∞
apr 21 2013 +
 1079 actually. Not the latest edition. Asterisks indicate films that have since been removed from the list. ^ indicates films I've seen part of and need to finish.
- ✔ 12 Angry Men (1957)
- ✔ 1900 (1976)
- ✔ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- ✔ 3-Iron (2004)*
- 42nd Street (1933)
- 8 1/2 (1963)
- A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
- A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
- ✔ A Christmas Story (1983)
- A City of Sadness (1989)
- ✔ A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- A Day in the Country (1936)
- ✔ A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
- A Hard Day's Night (1964)
- A Man Escaped (1956)
- A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
- A Night at the Opera (1935)
aug 24 2012 ∞
may 20 2018 +
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New releases watched in that year.
- Phantom Thread (2017)
- Manchester by the Sea (2016)
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- Nebraska (2013)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Drive (2011)
- Black Swan (2010)
feb 21 2015 ∞
mar 21 2018 +
- The Lottery (and Other Stories), Shirley Jackson
- ✔ To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
- ✔ The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- White Teeth, Zadie Smith
- The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
- Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
- ✔ The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
- Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
- The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- ✔ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Like Life, Lorrie Moore
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- ✔ Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- The Delta of Venus, Anais Nin
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find (and Other Stories), Flannery O'Connor
- The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
may 18 2014 ∞
apr 6 2016 +
- Triumph of the Will (1934), Leni Riefenstahl
- Olympia (1938), Leni Riefenstahl
- ✔ Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), Dorothy Arzner
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren (and Alexander Hammid)
- ✔ The Bigamist (1953), Ida Lupino
- ✔ Animal Farm (1954), Joy Batchelor (and John Italas)
- Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962), Agnes Varda
- The Cool World (1963), Shirley Clarke
- The House Is Black (1963), Forugh Farrokhzad
- Daisies (1966), Vera Chytilova
- The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), Agnes Varda (and Jacques Demy)
- ✔ Gimme Shelter (1970), Charlotte Zwerin (and Albert Maysles, David Maysles)
- ✔ Wanda (1971), Barbara Loden
- The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Elaine May
oct 5 2012 ∞
jul 9 2017 +
 Have read and/or am interested in reading:
- Adventure Time
- Alias
- Alice in Wonderland
- Aliens
- American Horror Story: Coven
- Angel the Series
- Archer
- Avengers/MCU
- Bates Motel
- Battle Royale
- Battlestar Galactica
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Big Trouble in Little China
- Bioshock
- Boys Over Flowers (K-drama)
- Breaking Bad
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Community
- Dangerous Liaisons
sep 10 2012 ∞
oct 4 2014 +
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1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die: titles written by women
- A Day Off, by Storm Jameson (1933)
- A Question of Power, by Bessie Head (1973)
- A Severed Head, by Iris Murdoch (1961)
- Adam Bede, by George Eliot (1859)
- Alberta and Jacob, by Cora Sandel (1926)
- Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood (1996)
- Anagrams, by Lorrie Moore (1986)
- Andrea, by Carmen Laforet (1945)
- Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid (1985)
- As If I Am Not There, by Slavenka Drakulic (1999)
- Asphodel, by H.D. (1992)
- Astradeni, by Eugenia Fakinou (1991)
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987)
- Blaming, by Elizabeth Taylor (1976)
- Blood and Guts in High School, by Kathy Acker (1984)
- Bonjour Tristesse, by Francoise Sagan (19...
apr 16 2017 ∞
apr 18 2017 +
- Clear (DRAMAtical Murder)
- Cameron (Terminator: TSCC)
- David 8 (Prometheus)
- Data (Star Trek: TNG)
- T-1000 (Terminator 2)
- Bishop (Aliens)
- Cindi Mayweather (Janelle Monae)
- C3PO and R2D2 (Star Wars)
- Teddy (A.I.)
- Buffybot (BtVS)
- HAL 9000
- H.E.L.P.eR.
(wait for Metropolis)
aug 18 2014 ∞
aug 30 2014 +
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