May 2012
27 posts
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can...”
– Pema Chodron (via vocatus)
“I have so much of you in my heart.”
– John Keats, July 10, 1819 (via incisio)
“What I am after
is silence
in proportion
to desire…”
– Vona Groarke, from “Purism” (via wemetrandomly)
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via floralnymph)
“Attachment is the very opposite of love. Love says, ‘I want you to be happy.’...”
– Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo (via nirvikalpa)
“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What...”
– Anna Kamienska, from “A Nest of Quiet,” trans. Clare Cavanagh (via awritersruminations) (via proustitute)
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“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“She anchored
Her hips
In his eyes
And brought him
To port.”
– Malcolm de Chazal, Sens-Plastique (via seabois)
April 2012
24 posts
The Quiet is Me, Listening
growing-orbits:
Most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don’t want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen.
— Margaret Atwood with thanks to poetbabble and apoetreflects
“Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful...”
– Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency (via rhea137)
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian (via mute-swan)
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.”
– Charles Dickens (via thelittlelovecraftian)
“I want to go back to bed and get inside her. That’s the only time there’s...”
– Leonard Cohen, The End of My Life in Art (via m-as-tu-vu)
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power....”
– Washington Irving (via bedazzlecat)
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