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"Beauty is as rare as mass murder." - The School of Life Dictionary "I need better bras, but refuse to wear good bras anymore." - Me LINKS: Buy the new Dave Eggers book The Every here: https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-every?taxon_id=1 or here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/the-every-by-dave-eggers Buy The School of Life Dictionary here: https://www.th...

"She had no horses but thought she did." -Keaton Patti's Bot "Garlic powder is prob the most important thing to me." - Yours Truly LINKS: Buy "I Forced a Bot to Write This Book" here: https://linktr.ee/IForcedABot My Website: https://www.robynoneil.com My Shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com...

"The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself." - Etel Adnan "The books I'm reading about demons are making me nervous." - (Catholic) Me LINKS: Buy The 2 volume Etel Adnan reader here: https://nightboat.org/book/to-look-at-the-sea-is-to-become-what-one-is/ Support me and my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Check out the show I'm in with the Studio Archive Project: https://stu...

“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe “Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says onl...

"I am raising a fly with wings of gold" - Songs from the Quechua "I want to be on The Young and the Restless." - Me LINKS: Buy "Looking for Poetry, Translations by Mark Strand: here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780375709883?aff=penguinrandom Check out my website here: www.robynoneil.com Shop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en

"Garbage collectors pick up 6,424 pounds of your trash a year." - Spike Carlsen "Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain." - Robert Gary Lee LINKS: Buy Spike Carlsen's "A Walk Around the Block" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-walk-around-the-block-spike-carlsen?variant=33021712793634 Check out Reader's Digest here: https://www.rd.com If you're worried about someone else's drinking:...

"We are at a party that doesn't love us." - Tomas Tranströmer "We sure the fuck are." - Me LINKS: Buy Tomas Tranströmer's "The Great Enigma" here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-great-enigma/ My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop

Recommendation Corner: rest, relaxation, television, couch time, fun foods, salads, the right amount of water, markers, stamp collecting, sticker collecting, sleep schedule, walking, isolating.  Not Recommended: overuse of smartphone, beating yourself up, expecting, ignoring your body, snapping, irregular bathing, forgetting to eat, isolating. LINKS: Buy Claudia Rankine's Plot here: https://grovea...

"I've been stuck with a smelly, actively decaying body that I never asked for and am constantly on the receiving end of confusing, overwhelming messages for how to properly care for and feed it." - Samantha Irby "What she said." - Me LINKS: Buy Samantha Irby's books here: https://www.booksoup.com/search/site/samantha%20irby Check out my website here: www.robynoneil.com Shop my shop here: www.robyn...

Shade I've Dealt With Today: Shade inside my trash can full of dark chocolate wrappers, shade in my new lip balm box, on whale skin scars, shade inside my own stomach, shade in between my lips and those blankets, fuzzy shade forcing its way out from under my dying dill plant, shade under my mouth on the phone, shade under a printout I made of Louise Lasser, shade beneath lost items. LINKS: Check o...

"Hubbard explained to his agent that he ultimately decided to withdraw the book from publication because the first six people who read it were so shattered by the revelations that they had lost their minds. The last time he showed Excalibur to a publisher, he said, the reader brought the manuscript into the room, set it on the publisher's desk, then jumped out the window of the skyscraper." - Lawr...

"My head is as big as the world. A river of the color red and real shiny." - Arnaldo Gomez "I bought myself a glazed donut." - Me LINKS: Buy "Wishes, Lies, and Dreams" here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wishes-lies-and-dreams-kenneth-kochron-padgett?variant=32131028549666 Email me your Swan of Bees poem here: mereadingstuff@icloud.com Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_onei...

"Who's with me sitting alone at a moonlit window? ... Just this amazing thing, all grief and worry, that I am. My very own grief and worry: amazing!" -Li Ch'ing-chao LINKS: Buy Classical Chinese Poetry here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904 Check out my shop and use "SPRING" in the BOOKS section for 25% off: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rob...

"It is certainly true that the larger and older the living thing is, the harder it is to know how to care for it." - Lydia Davis "A sure sign that someone's about to have a full mental breakdown is when they start obsessively juicing." - Me LINKS: Buy "The Collected Stories" by Lydia Davis here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312655396 Shop my stuff here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Listen...

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." - Charles Simic "I like watching people listen." - Me LINKS: Buy Charles Simic's "The Horse Has Six Legs" here: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/hors...

"For most of my adult life, I drove through Central Park every morning going to work." - Susan Lucci "Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob." - David Charvet LINKS: Lifetime Movie Club: https://www.lifetimemovieclub.com My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/...

"Happiness is a strange notion. I am just not made for it. It has never been a goal of mine; I do not think in those terms." - Werner Herzog LINKS: Buy The School of Life Dictionary: https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/us/tsol-dictionary/ My shop: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.instagram.com/handwrittenn...

"Form your letters slowly and well: making things well is more important than making them." - Antonio Machado "Brie is a 90's cheese. I'm going to go buy some right now." - Me LINKS: Buy The Winged Energy of Delight by Robert Bly here: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-winged-energy-of-delight-robert-bly?variant=32130617704482 Check out Devon from Young and the Restless here: https://www....

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"Light is therefore color, and shadow the privation of it." - J.M.W. Turner, 1818 "Have you ever had a black eye? Have you ever had pink eye?" - Me, 2021 LINKS: Sign up for my "World-Making" workshop! https://www.toledomuseum.org/education/classes Check out my Shop! https://www.robynoneil.com/shop My show in Toledo: https://www.toledomuseum.org/art/exhibitions/telling-stories-resilience-and-strugg...

"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg LINKS: Watch the trailer for David Cronenberg's "Maps to the Stars" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrOJZEdV_88 More on the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2172584/ Stickers! Crocheted Mobiles! Books! Here is...

"The word "lost" comes from the Old Norse los, meaning the disbanding of an army." -Solnit "They say my sista was rolled up in a red carpet. Ok, come on nah. Cause when they picked her body up, parts of her flesh was on the ground birds was eatin my sista's face.” - a Women on Murder In the Bayou "I'm still mad about that chicken caesar wrap." - Me LINKS: Buy Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Get...

"Now that I live in the Trojan Horse, I feel so much more at ease." - Pavel Šrut "Please God, somebody from Mexico be mad about chicken caesar wraps with me." - Me LINKS: Buy "Worm-Eaten Time" here: https://www.czechlit.cz/en/book/worm-eaten-time-en/ Buy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/books Me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en Handwritten Notes: https://www.insta...

"The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering." - Moshe Ibn Ezra LINKS: Buy "The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492 here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poem Buy my book here: https://www.robynoneil.com/books Watch Eliot Weinberger here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/weinberger/1 Me on Instagram: https://...

"Things aren't other than they are." - Wang An-shih Thanks to D.W. Burnam for recommending the poetry of Wang An-shih! This podcast is dedicated to D.W., Dawn and Graham. LINKS: Buy "Classical Chinese Poetry, An Anthology" Translated and Edited by David Hinton here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374531904 Win the 2020 Headstone Drawing here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/2020-Headstone-Drawing-by-...