Brocante Notes

betterthanfine:

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. ”

-Vita Sackville West

Via Better Than Fine

11am

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you’ve read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and it belongs to you forever:the happiness and unhappiness, the good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and weather. If you can give that to reader, then you’re a writer.

Via je t’aime jusqu’au bout

4pm

The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.

Via Quote Book:

5pm

My Wallpaper and I Are Fighting a Duel to the Death. One or the Other of Us Has to Go.

Via Today I Love

7am

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Via Quote Book:

10am

The Bath, Joel Oppenheimer

poetry365:

he will insist on
reading things into her simplest act.
her bath, which she takes
because he wills it so. her bath
she takes to cleanse herself.
ritual. ritual always
in his life. she takes her bath
to ready herself.
and himself more often than not decides
she wants him unbathed. manlike.
what he is most pleased about is
her continuing bathing.
in his tub. in his water. wife.

Via Poetry 365

4pm

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

Via Quote Book:

3pm

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

Via je t’aime jusqu’au bout

10am