Along with all other Jane Austen novels, Pride and Prejudice is a huge inspiration to my writing, and to my life as a whole.
Storm Warnings By: Adrienne Rich
The glass has been falling all the afternoon, And knowing better than the instrument What winds are walking overhead, what zone Of grey unrest is moving across the land, I leave the book upon a pillowed chair And walk from window to closed window, watching Boughs strain against the sky
And think again, as often when the air Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting How with a single purpose time has traveled By secret currents of the undiscerned Into this polar realm. Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
Between forseeing and averting change Lies all the mastery of elements Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter Time in the hand is not control of time Nor shattered fragments of an instrument A proof against the wind; the wind will rise, We can only close the shutters.
I draw the curtains as the sky goes black And set a match to candles sheathed in glass Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine Of weather through the unsealed aperture. This is our sole defense against the season; These are the things we have learned to do Who live in troubled regions.
(Some of) My Favorite Books: 1. Anything Jane Austen 2. The Book Thief, by Mark Zusak 3. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker 4. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 5. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley