April 2012
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as our fate.
– Carl Jung (via ratak-monodosico)
March 2012
out of the lie with no
rises a truth of yes
(only herself and who
illimitably...
– E.E. Cummings, from Selected Poems 1923-1958 (via growing-orbits)
: Two Countries Skin remembers how long the years... →
growing-orbits:
Two Countries
Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bird, swirling onto a step, swept away by someone who never saw it was a feather. Skin ate, walked, slept by itself, knew how to raise a see-you-later…
What is your favorite word?”
“And. It is so hopeful.
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An interview with Margaret Atwood (via myprivateopera)
I will not be “famous,” “great.” I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my...
– ― Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...
– Leonard Cohen (via blua)
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you...
– Socrates (via larmoyante)
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...
– e.e. cummings (via little-harmonica)
There are things sadder
than you and I. Some people
do not even touch.
– Sonia Sanchez, Haiku (via grammatolatry)
I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I...
– David Lynch (via pomeray)
I know it’s your birthday and I am an hour
late. I didn’t think there would be...
– Gary Margolis, Did You Bring Me Anything (via grammatolatry)
Fuck you in slang and conventional English.
Fuck you in lost and neglected...
– Amy Gerstler, Fuck You Poem #45 (via grammatolatry)
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...
– Nietzsche (via stellarexplosion)