#the book of form and emptiness

[dashedwithromance]

i love it when you read multiple works from a writer and you start being able to pick out the things that stick with them. like the themes they keep thinking about, that can’t be satisfied with just one poem or novel or story. or the motifs they like to reuse and recycle throughout their works like an extradiagetic thread. it’s like drawing a map through a writer’s collection of all the things that keep them up at night

[andreabadgley]

"I thought progress was a good thing." "Well, maybe not if it just keeps piling up more junk and keeps you from fixing stuff from the past."

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

[on-poetry]

“If skin marks the border where an I ends and a you begins, then that night they did all they could to cross it.”

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

[convulsionofhonesty]

this was a little too much to be slapped with today :) [ruth ozeki - the book of form and emptiness / adrianne lenker - sadness as a gift]

[mimisreadingnook]

My most recent book haul 📚 I got these books secondhand and I want to read all of them before I buy more books! First up: Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead 😄

[quaintrelledragicorn]

“The Public Library is a shrine of dreams, and people fall in love here all the time... Books are works of love, after all. Our bodies may not be made to enjoy the mysteries of corporeal conjugation, but even our driest tomes, the most unromantic among us, can make your dreams come true” - Ruth Ozeki, “The Book of Form and Emptiness”

Morning light in the library of All Souls’ College, Oxford. Photo: Charles Finch Tumblr: thelastenchantments

[bethanyetc]

“Poetry is a problem of form and emptiness. Ze moment I put one work onto an empty page, I hef created a problem for myself. Ze poem that emerges is from, trying to find a solution to my problem. In ze end, of course, there are no solutions. Only more problems, but this is a good thing. Without problems, there would be no poems.”

—The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki

[daymarkist]

Dreams are like doors. They're like portals to another reality, and once they're open, you better watch out.

— Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

[whatwwwwwww]

People are born from the womb of the world with different sensitivities, and the world needs every single one of you to experience it fully, so that it might be fully experienced. If even one person were left out, the world would be diminished.

Ruth Ozeki

[coffeebean-88]

25th September 2022

Sunday

This is such a beautiful, delicate book. I'm only half way through but I can tell it's going to be one I re-read every few years, going deeper each time because I'll be more mature each time.

[waxenheart]

If skin marks the border where an I ends and a you begins, then that night they did all they could to cross it.

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

[ninasbookshelf]

calling ruth ozeki fans...

I've had "The Face: A Time Code" by Ruth Ozeki on my TBR list for awhile now and I am finally getting around to ordering it, but I see she also has a book titled "Timecode of a Face". I'm guessing these are the same thing, but looking to confirm. Is the content different at all? I love her work and want to make sure I'm not missing out on anything, lol! If anyone has insight I'd greatly appreciate it.

[andreabadgley]

Not sure about this one yet.

[no-dominion-eyes]

The first words of a book are of utmost importance. The moment of encounter, when a reader turns to that first page, and reads those opening words, it's like locking eyes or touching someone's hand for the first time, and we feel it, too. Books don't have eyes or hands, it's true, but when a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it...

[notreallyanywhereanymore]

A book must start somewhere. One brave letter must volunteer to go first, laying itself on the line in an act of faith, from which a word takes heart and follows, drawing a sentence into its wake. From there, a paragraph amasses, and soon a page, and the book is on its way, finding a voice, calling itself into being. A book must start somewhere, and this one starts here.

The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

[quaintrelledragicorn]

I knew you were mine. These are the words every book wants to hear, and they sent a tremor of delight down our spines. - Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness