January 2012
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 8th
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“Words, which can make our terrors bravely clear, Can also thus domesticate a...”
– Richard Wilbur, from “A Barred Owl” (via proustitute)
Jan 8th
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“It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via pantherprincess)
Jan 8th
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Jan 8th
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December 2011
7 posts
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Dec 24th
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Dec 18th
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“I simply want to be dead… no grove [ ] no dance no sound”
– Sappho, fragment translated by Anne Carson in If Not, Winter (via proustitute)
Dec 18th
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“How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what...”
– Sylvia Plath  (via zacheser)
Dec 8th
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“But there are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life,...”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (via bookoasis)
Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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November 2011
9 posts
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“A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to...”
– ― W.B. Yeats (via polarbearprince)
Nov 26th
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“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T. S. Eliot (via troubled)
Nov 26th
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“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these...”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)
Nov 26th
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Nov 25th
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Nov 23rd
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Nov 19th
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“And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It’s about...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via brittadictarnold)
Nov 12th
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“The word within a word, unable to speak a word, Swaddled with darkness.”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Gerontion” (via weissewiese)
Nov 4th
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Nov 3rd
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
8 posts
Oct 30th
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Oct 30th
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“The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they...”
– Charles Simic, from “Autumn Sky” (via proustitute)
Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 20th
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Oct 16th
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September 2011
15 posts
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Sep 30th
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Van Stanley: Nobel Prize acceptance speech, by... →
vanstanley: Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this…
Sep 29th
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Sep 29th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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Sep 25th
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“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no...”
– Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye (via mydirty)
Sep 23rd
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Sep 17th
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Sep 16th
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“Yet no matter how deeply I go down into myself my God is dark, like a webbing...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via sleepinginthesnow)
Sep 15th
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“Free man, you shall forever cherish the vast sea, The sea, that image where you...”
– Charles Baudelaire, “The Man and the Sea,” translated by Jacques LeClercq, 1958 (via aubade)
Sep 15th
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Sep 13th
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Sep 10th
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“Too much rain loosens trees. In the hills giant oaks fall upon their knees....”
– Kay Ryan, “Crown” (via proustitute)
Sep 3rd
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Alternative histories in art by Matthew Buchholz
iheartchaos: Artist Matthew Buchholz creates historic images with a slight twist. Zombies are presidents, aliens invade old pictures of loving young couples, and sea monsters slither around national monuments. Read More
Sep 2nd
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August 2011
30 posts
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“Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.”
– Oranges are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (via thechocolatebrigade)
Aug 31st
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Aug 29th
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“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (via theladycheeky)
Aug 28th
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Aug 28th
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Sharing Poetry: Louise Glück, "Midsummer" →
sharingpoetry: On nights like this we used to swim in the quarry, the boys making up games requiring them to tear off  the girls’ clothes and the girls cooperating, because they had new bodies since last summer and they wanted to exhibit them, the brave ones leaping off  the high rocks — bodies crowding the…
Aug 28th
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