"Go inside a stone. That would be my way. Let somebody else become a dove." -Charles Simic Buy absolutely anything by Charles Simic. Buy "The Language of Letting Go" Daily Meditations by Melody Beattie. And thank you for being with me today. I've missed you guys. Love, Robyn

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"We're animals, Amy. And some animals like to party. For me, God is a beer on the beach. Maybe that's fucked up, but at least it's honest." - Levi, Enlightened "Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships." - Charles Simic "Today wasn't anything spectacular and that's what I loved about it." Me, January…

"Modern natural philosophers have found God in the folds of the skin of the rhinoceros." - Voltaire "I found the saltiest, greasiest corn chip at the bottom of this Juanita's bag this morning. It totally blew my mind." - Me LINKS: Buy the book here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/an-elemental-thing/ See what you think about these Daniel Ladinsky "HAF…

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"It is always tricky, the question whether to read an author’s work in light of his life or not." -Anne Carson "If you can drink a beer, you can smell patchouli." - Me LINKS: Check out "The Albertine Workout" by Anne Carson HERE and buy it at your nearest independent bookseller. Listen to Anne Carson reading from "The Albertine Workout" HERE. SMELL…

"I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing nothing by my own fault, my conscience was clear, and I was happy. This was when I was in prison." - Daniil Kharms "I'm exhausted." - Me LINKS: Buy "Today I Wrote Nothing" HERE (or wherever you buy books except Amazon). Buy …

“I think I want, but what is it that I want? Do I want something? I don’t know." - Patrizia Cavalli "Kids tend to think of my violence as funny." - Me LINKS: Buy Patrizia Cavalli's "My Poems Won't Change the World" HERE. Check out my American Movie podcast HERE. Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE. See my drawings in "HELL and the Par…

"You hear so much talk about risk-taking in poetry. Lying is a form of risk-taking, but no one talks about that." - Mary Ruefle "The End." - Me ______________________________________________ LINKS: Buy Madness, Rack, and Honey at WAVE BOOKS. Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE. See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE. Get fre…

"We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole." - Mark Strand "Have you guys seen the new squeezable sauerkraut?!?" - Me LINKS: Purchase Mark Strand's "Selected Poems" HERE. Check out my Artforum review! Buy a "ME READING STUFF" shirt or sweatshirt HERE. See my drawings in "HELL and the Paradisal" HERE. Get free shipping on all books…

"Such fun waking up though! Such fun too if you don't! Keep dying! Keep writing it down!" - C.K. Williams "Message received." - Me LINKS: Buy "Writers Writing Dying" by C.K. Williams HERE. Buy "Rest" by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang HERE. Sign up for my newsletter HERE. Check out my show at Inman Gallery HERE.…

"Jeff, roommate: Left my stuff all over the house; left the fridge a mess. Mary, friend: Promised to make her a clock. Made it, but never gave it to her." -Workaholics Anonymous "Monica, Starbucks boss: Pretended I got a "gig" in Hollywood to be killed off in a horror movie. Never returned to job. Peter, Gallery Owner: Lied during a studio visit ab…

"I have also seen doom." -Robinson Jeffers "As you can see, I need to breathe." - Robyn O'Neil LINKS: Buy Robinson Jeffers' Selected Poems Hit up my website www.robynoneil.com

"I think mostly about clothes, sex, food, and seasonal variations. I have done so much to be ordinary and made a record of this: first I was born, next I was a child, then I learned things and did things and loved and had those who loved me and often felt alone. My body was sometimes well, then sometimes unwell. I got nearer to death, as did you." …

"I have loved too terribly and too much Ever to have any fear of love." - Elsa Gidlow "Indoor plumbing is my favorite invention." - Me LINKS: Buy Elsa Gidlow books HERE! Poem-a-Day www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram

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“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.” - Patricia Highsmith "Honestly, same." - Me LINKS: Buy Patricia Highsmith - Her Diaries and Notebooks Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS Online Viewing Room for AMERICAN ANIMALS Catalogue for AMERICAN ANIMALS www.robynoneil.com Me on Instagram…

"The post office is a mile away." -Chika Sagawa "Forgive yourself, forgive others, buy those refried beans." - Me LINKS: Buy The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593230015 Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-april-28-2022-june-4/…

"Bury me in wood / And I will splinter / Bury me in stone / And I will quake / Bury me in water / And I will geyser / Bury me in fire / And I'm gonna phoenix" - Bill Callahan "My favorite website is whodatedwho.com" - Me LINKS: Kevin Prufer's website: https://www.kevinprufer.com Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/…

"Take pleasure today in the friend at your side; tomorrow he'll leave, and the joy will die." - Avraham Ibn Ezra LINKS: Buy "The Dream of the Poem" here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691121956/the-dream-of-the-poem Info on my show AMERICAN ANIMALS here: https://www.inglettgallery.com/exhibitions/191-robyn-o-neil-american-animals-…

"I've listened to rain all my life. My hair's white now, and I still don't know night rain on a spring river." - Lu Yu LINKS: More on this book and where to purchase it here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-new-directions-anthology-of-classical-chinese-poetry/?source=search My upcoming show at Susan Inglett Gallery: https://www.inglettgallery.com …

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Be my coworker. I'd love a bag." - Me LINKS: Check out my source for this week's reading, Christopher Burn's "Poetry Changes Lives": https://www.poetrychangeslives.com/mozart…

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov "If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world." - Mark Strand "If you get a stye, you'll know…

"That I am alive is no more than an endless rumor." - Choi Seungja "You don't want an ombre hairstyle on your teeth." - Me p.s. I have an ombre hairstyle on my teeth LINKS: More on Choi Seungja and "Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me" here: https://actionbooks.org/choi-seungja-phone-bells/ More on Stephanie Goehring here: https://hostpublications.com/…

"For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes." - Robert Creeley "I will not use my mid-stream urine; I will go to the drug store." - Me LINKS: Robert Creeley's "A Day Book: Tuesday, November 19, 1968": https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-day-book_robert-creeley/1408332/item/2488639/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP-OBhDqARIsAD4XHpdlixwl…

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"Dear Everyone, Let me disappoint you." - Sort of Jameson O'Hara Laurents, sort of me. LINKS: Buy Medaeum by James O'Hara Laurens here: https://henrymiller.org/2016/11/01/announcing-the-publication-of-medaeum-by-jameson-ohara-laurens/ Listen to "Once Upon a Time at Bennington College": http://www.lilianolik.com/once-upon-a-time-at-bennington-colleg…

"I like ancient Chinese poetry." - Graham Burnam "I'd like to publish a Graham Burnam book of poetry." - Me LINKS: D.W. Burnam's work: https://www.instagram.com/d.w._burnam/ Dawn Cerny's work: https://www.instagram.com/cerny_studio/ Everyman's Pocket LIbrary's Solitude: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781400044238 Buy my Lion shirt at Inman Galler…

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting." - Marlene Dietrich "If there is a supreme being, he's crazy." - Marlene Dietrich LINKS: Buy Mason Currey's "Daily Rituals: Women at Work" here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/604080/daily-rituals-women-at-work-by-mason-currey/9781524732950?ref=PRHB7BD76FBDB&aid=14813&linkid=PRHB7BD76FBDB Buy m…

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"What I've aimed for as a translator is transparency, but in pieces, like high small windows in a tall room that let in only moving fragments of the picture of the sky." - Janet Hendrickson "Uhhhhh Sebastián, lions ARE cool." - Me LINKS: Buy Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language here: https://bookshop.org/books/treasure-of-the-castilian-or-…

"Perhaps two in a thousand people like poetry." - Wislawa Szymborska “There’s a lot to think about isn’t there?” -Mr Rogers LINKS: Buy Wislawa Szymborska's "Here" here: https://bookshop.org/books/here-9780547592091/9780547592091 Buy "The Every" by Dave Eggers with my drawings on the cover here: https://electric-works.myshopify.com/collections/front…

“He who cannot howl will not find his pack.” - Charles Simic "...unusual feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment, unexpected and more abiding than usual." - Joseph Cornell LINKS: Buy Charles Simic's Dime-Store Alchemy here: https://www.nyrb.com/products/dime-store-alchemy-1?variant=1094929469 Order my 2021 Headstone Greeting Cards here: https://…

"If you only knew from what rubbish Poetry grows, knowing no shame." - Anna Akhmatova "You don't need friends everybody. Just have fun with yourself." - Me LINKS: Buy The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780939010271 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/cardsandstickers Buy a ME READING S…

She stabbed Clint Eastwood. She can make one tear run down her right cheek on command. I made a chef salad and don't take care of myself well anymore. LINKS: Buy "Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America's #1 Daytime Drama" here: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781635766943 Order your greeting cards here: https://www.robynoneil.com/ca…

"Everything has its story." - A.L. Snijders "I'm a soap opera scholar." - Me LINKS: Buy Night Train by A.L. Snijders here: https://www.ndbooks.com/book/night-train/ Register for my lecture here: https://finearts.wsu.edu/event/robyn-oneil-virtual-artist-talk/ Visit my shop here: https://www.robynoneil.com/shop Support The Trevor Project by buying ME…

"Read, read, read, read, read. Those who read own the world; those who immerse themselves in the Internet or watch too much television lose it. If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker. Our civilization is suffering profound wounds because of the wholesale abandonment of reading by contemporary society." - Werner Herzog LINKS: Buy Werner He…

"You workin' hard lady? I don't believe you." - Kool Keith "Are you an original? I don't believe you." - Me LINKS: Kool Keith's "Matthew": https://koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/matthew Listen to "I Don't Believe You" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4Y16Hb6RM Buy The Fran Lebowitz Reader here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/99063/th…

"You should know this: that feed is your poem.” - Anne Boyer "You should know this: that thing you casually do is probably not your art. But it actually might be your art. Totally depends on the person." - Me LINKS: Buy Garments Against Women here: https://www.mobythegreat.com/books/anne-boyer/garments-against-women/9780141990217?gclid=CjwKCAjwtfqK…

"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 …

"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/?…

"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…

“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…

"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 Instagra…

"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…

"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…

"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 her…

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 Louis…