I've been collecting lines from books and poems for as long as I can remember. They're shoved away everywhere, in the pages of notebooks, underneath my mattress, behind photos in frames. I even have one tattooed on my back. This blog is a natural outgrowth of my Linesofbeauty Twitter account, for those passages that last more than 140 characters.

When a shiver and a smile aren't enough, there's also plenty of space here for analysis. I'd love to hear your comments on what each of these passages means to you. The purpose of art, after all, is to learn something new about ourselves.

I'd also like some space to test out turns of phrases that I came up with myself. The link comes from a story I recently completed. I'm a creative writing major at a university that masquerades as a liberal arts college, and I'd love a new forum in which to collect inspirations.

Enjoy!