by Jordan Dotson | Nov 18, 2020 | Predicates and commas and whatnot, Things I wish I'd written
Zeus, who guided men to think, who has laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our will temperance comes. From the gods who sit in grandeur grace is somehow violent. …Strophe... by Jordan Dotson | May 16, 2020 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. …from the incomparable Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. Do these vintage international... by Jordan Dotson | Jan 4, 2020 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
You are always new. The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. …John Keats, from Selected Letters. by Jordan Dotson | Aug 16, 2019 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. …from The Razor’s Edge, by Somerset Maugham by Jordan Dotson | Jul 6, 2019 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles’s heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated and this one revealed the great chasm between affection... by Jordan Dotson | Jan 8, 2019 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
To acquire even a degree of self-control, he had had to ponder the question of life and death for many years, discipline himself at every turn of the road, force himself to undergro the rigors of a samurai’s training. With no training or conscious...