The Complete Perfectionist
By: Juan Ramón Jiménez
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Perfection is an ideal that makes life worth living--the internal applause as you hit the perfect n…
Want to Read $ 13.99"One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first."-Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
"One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first."-Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
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1. The Bridge
By: Hart Crane , Waldo Frank , Thomas A. Vogler
4.08
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Like Whitman, Hart Crane strove in his poetry to embrace America, to distill an image of America. B… read more
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- poetry
"O sleepless as the river under thee, / Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, / Onto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend / And of the curveship lend a myth to God."-Hart Crane, The Bridge
"O Thou steeled Cognizance whose leap commits The agile precincts of the lark’s return; Within whose lariat sweep encinctured sing In single chrysalis the many twain — Of stars Thou art the stitch and…"-Hart Crane, The Bridge
2. The Dancing Girl of Izu
By: Yasunari Kawabata
3.64
Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition
A 1926 short story by the Japanese writer and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. read more
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- nobel prize
3. The Mansion
By: Henry Van Dyke , Elizabeth Shippen Green
4.16
Format: 61 pages, Paperback
There was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money … read more
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"… curiosity is another of the mistresses whose slaves decline no sacrifice."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Like any good optimist, I don’t expect the worst to happen. Only, like any optimist worth his salt, I like to go and look as soon as possible afterward jest in case it did."-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"Man must have light. He must live in the fierce full constant glare of light, where all shadow will be defined and sharp and unique and personal: the shadow of his own singular rectitude or baseness.…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
"… they are beating their brains out against one of the foundation rocks of our national character itself. Which is the premise that politics and political office are not and never have been the metho…"-Henry Van Dyke, The Mansion
4. Meadowlands
By: Louise Glück
4.08
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Louise Glück sows the fertile subject ground of marital discord in harvesting this crop of gems. Th… read more
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- nobel prize
- poetry
"Watching you stare into space in the tidy rows of the vegetable garden, ostensibly working hard while actually doing the worst job possible, I think you are a small irritating purple thing and I woul…"-Louise Glück, Meadowlands
5. The Wild Iris
By: Louise Glück
4.18
Format: 65 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunnin… read more
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- nobel prize
- poetry
"things that can't move learn to see"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
" No one's despair is like my despair-- "-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"I'm tired of you, chaos of the living world--"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
"What does the horse give you That I cannot give you?"-Louise Glück, The Wild Iris
6. A Longing for the Light: Selected Poems
By: Lewis Hyde , Vicente Aleixandre
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977. This bilingual … read more
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- spanish literature
- poetry
- nobel prize
7. Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
By: André Breton , Jean-Pierre Cauvin , Mary Ann Caws
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder of Surrealism and a major leader of the avante-garde movem… read more
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- poetry
8. The Zürau Aphorisms
By: Franz Kafka , Michael Hofmann , Roberto Calasso , Geoffrey Brock
3.68
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Usko kuin kirves. Yhtä raskas, yhtä kevyt."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"از رقیب راستین، شجاعت بینهایتی به درون تو جریان دارد."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"چهطور میتوان در دنیا شادمان بود مگر با گریختن از آن؟"-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
"Meidän on aina kärsittävä itse kaikki aiheuttamamme kärsimys."-Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms
9. The Seasons of the Soul
By: Hermann Hesse
4.16
Format: None pages,
s/t: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Herman Hesse Vowing at an early age "to be a poet … read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
10. C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
By: Constantinos P. Cavafy , Edmund Keeley , Philip Sherrard , George Savidis
4.38
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
C. P. Cavafy (1863 - 1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of hi… read more
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- poetry
"Άλλα ζητεί η ψυχή σου, γι’ άλλα κλαίει·"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Η Ιθάκη σ’ έδωσε τ’ ωραίο ταξείδι. Χωρίς αυτήν δεν θάβγαινες στον δρόμο."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Vuelve a menudo y tómame, en la noche, cuando los labios y la piel recuerdan..."-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
"Aunque sea con engaños, que me ilusione ahora: pero que no sienta el vacío de mi vida. (Septiembre de 1903)"-Constantinos P. Cavafy, C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems
11. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
12. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker , Yukio Mishima
3.58
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata is noted for his combination of a traditional Japanese… read more
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13. The High Window (Philip Marlowe, #3)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.99
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin… read more
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14. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
By: Aldous Huxley
2.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more
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15. Kokoro
By: Natsume Sōseki , Edwin McClellan
3.77
Format: None pages,
Hailed by The New Yorker as "rich in understanding and insight,"Kokoro -- "the heart of things"-- i… read more
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16. The Complete Perfectionist
By: Juan Ramón Jiménez
3.85
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Perfection is an ideal that makes life worth living--the internal applause as you hit the perfect n… read more
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- nobel prize
- poetry
- personal development
- spanish literature
- philosophy
- nonfiction
"One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first."-Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
