December 2011
15 posts
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– C.G. Jung (via misswallflower)
“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via suzywire)
“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would...”
– Anne Sexton (via quercetum)
1 tag
“Fundamentally, I started writing to save my life. Yes, my own life first. I see...”
– Cherríe Moraga (via muxersita)(via unicornology)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to...”
– Linda Pastan, Lists (via wwnorton)
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as...”
– Adrienne Rich (bone-map via mkarmstr)
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
(aeloquence via thechaotic)
“On the other hand I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the...”
– Frank O’Hara, from Early Writings, journal entry dated 10/29/48
that brief gesture!
(via buongiorno)
“I know now that it’s not about fame or glory or all the things I used to dream...”
– Chekhov, The Seagull (via leopoldgursky)
“When I knocked the coffee cup
from its ledge, and it broke
into the shower,...”
– Karen Schubert, Breaking (via grammatolatry)
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone
(via ladyatheist)
“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak...”
– From The Cantos, CXX
Ezra Pound
(via words-in-lines)
November 2011
33 posts
tell me your secrets: There is a secret bond... →
aeloquence:
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. Consider this utterly commonplace situation: a man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who…
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you
upon...”
– William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart’s Desire (via pluuie)
“Fill yourself up with the forsythias
and when the lilacs flower, stir them in...”
– Last Spring by Gottfried Benn (via growing-orbits)
“He’s not a poet, but
I can tell from the way that he
traced the curve of my...”
– 30, Shinji Moon (via clavicola)
“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual...”
– Greta Christina (via earlyfrost)
“I know I am a fool, hoping dirt and glory are both a kind of luminous paint; the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from “Gut Symmetries” (via airwalker)
“Put your thoughts to sleep.
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of...”
– Rumi (via ratak-monodosico)
1 tag
“I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
(coldandpale)
1 tag
“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via whiskey river)
“Amazingly, I can look back
fifty years. And there, at the end of the gaze,
a...”
–
Louise Glück, “Birthday” (The Seven Ages, Ecco, 2001)
mythologyofblue:
There is a pause always around the word heart, the history of leaving, the small right-angled scars of loss.
-Sue Goyette, from “October, An Elegy”
“For beauty is a sequence of hypotheses which ugliness cuts short when it bars...”
– Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin (via proustitute)
“Most mornings you were in the sink. A feeling resulting from a lack of interest....”
– Madison Langston, excerpt from It Becomes The Love You Take (via holdonmagnolia)
“She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via audreylostinparis)
“You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.”
– Richard Hugo (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The lover’s solitude is not a solitude of person (love confides, speaks, tells...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)
“Everywhere people are mad for miracles.
They search their coffee cups, dunk...”
– The Religion of Birds by Megan O’Reilly Green (via grammatolatry)
“For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they...”
– Winter Dreams, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via milkwoods)
“Look at me across the sea, for I go radiant, look at me across the night through...”
– Pablo Neruda, The Captain’s Verses (via atramentum)
“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
– Louis XIV (via lungsattachedbywires)
“And Dante said angels have no need of memory for they have continuous...”
– Rosmarie Waldrop, from Blindsight (via proustitute)
“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but...”
– Anne Carson (via davidbarrie)
“She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on...”
– Gregory Maguire (via misswallflower)
October 2011
75 posts
“Some people turn sad awfully young,” he said. “No special reason, it seems, but...”
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via munstersandghosts)
“Don’t tell me you’ve never dreamed of this –
of waking in a room with a wide...”
– As I Walked Out by Esther Morgan (via growing-orbits)