July 2010
1 post
December 2009
2 posts
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
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via fatalistichues)
November 2009
1 post
“The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
October 2009
4 posts
“My Wallpaper and I Are Fighting a Duel to the Death. One or the Other of Us Has...”
– Oscar Wilde (via yvestown)
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl (via jayalzacee) (via poignant) (via quote-book)
September 2009
8 posts
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....
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos) (via ryannjoy) (via quote-book)
“Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because...”
– Fanny Brice (via fatalistichues)
“We’ve demonstrated that women can do what men do, but not yet that men can do...”
– Gloria Steinem (via jgh) (via gauntlet)
I want to add, I really don’t think we haven’t demonstrated that men can do what women do. We know that they can. The question is more, “When will they start doing it?”
(via robot-heart)
[Untitled], Nikki Giovanni
poetry365:
there is a hunger often associated with pain that you feel when you look at someone you used to love and enjoyed loving and want to love again though you know you can’t that gnaws at you steadily as a mosquito some michigan summer churning his wings through your window screen because the real world made up of baby clothes to be washed food to be cooked...
15%, Richard Brautigan
poetry365:
She tries to get things out of men that she can’t get because she’s not 15% prettier.
Among His Effects We Found a Photograph, Ed...
poetry365:
My mother us beautiful as a flapper. She is so in love that she has been gazing secretly at my father for forty years. He’s in uniform, with puttees and swagger stick, a tiny cork mustache bobbing above a shore line of teeth. They are “poor but happy.” In his hand is a lost book he had memorized, with a thousand clear answers to everything.
August 2009
2 posts
“The most beautiful people we have known are those
who have known defeat, known...”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (via gatekeeper) (via quote-book)
“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most...”
– Libba Bray (via iamblessed)
June 2009
8 posts
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via fatalistichues)
“I cant figure out whats worse, having to know every single detail of your...”
– Kate Hudson, Alex & Emma (via quotewhore) (via thoughtsdetained) (via filmquotes)
“She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and...”
– Sarah Dunn, Secrets to Happiness (via overflowing)
“You look lovelier tonight than I remember. I’m so glad I got to see you...”
– Poetry - Bill Anderson - As much as I can stand - You look lovelier tonight than I remember
“I do my thing and you do your thing I am not in this world to live up to your...”
– Poetry - Frederick Perls - Gestalt Prayer - I do my thing and you do your thing
Octopus, Nancy Pagh
poetry365:
After Pat Lowther
Some men are beautifully dysfunctional when you first know them; the loss of youth, integrity, or wife clear in each lovely unsure gesture you mistake for tenderness
but taking flight from you: look how sure and purposeful in every part: their smooth machinery moving efficiently away as if engineered by Leonardo or a god who gave the octopus, not you,...
Memory of Soil, Eleanor Paynter
poetry365:
The new tenants change a few things. They whitewash the red kitchen, lay a rug on the wood floor, hang
long curtains and photographs of other people from other pasts. Their centerpiece is plucked from the July meadow, sunflowers
leaning on the sides of the vase. The house creaks with seasons. They coat the scent of roasted pecans
in new recipes, new coffee from a new coffee...
The Feast, Robert Hass
poetry365:
The lovers loitered on the deck talking, the men who were with men and the men who were with new women, a little shrill and electric, and the wifely women who had repose and beautifully lined faces and coppery skin. She had taken the turkey from the oven and her friends were talking on the deck in the steady sunshine. She imagined them drifting toward the food, in small groups,...
May 2009
17 posts
“But love is none of these things. It won’t suddenly make every day ok. It won’t...”
– I Wrote This For You (via michelleums) (via maryelizabethinspire)
"Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary...
overflowing:
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....”
– Bob Moawad (via littlemiss)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via littlemiss)
How It Will Happen, When
unicornology:
buyhercandy:
There you are, exhausted from another night of crying, curled up on the couch, the floor, at the foot of the bed, anywhere you fall you fall down crying, half amazed at what the body is capable of, not believing you can cry anymore. And there they are: his socks, his shirt, your underwear, and your winter gloves, all in a loose pile next to the bathroom door, and...
Death Comes to Me Again, A Girl
unicornology:
buyhercandy:
Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I...
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...”
– Steve Jobs (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
– Jacques Prévert (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
if there are heavens my mother, e.e. cummings
poetry365:
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven nor a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing near my (swaying over her silent) with eyes which are really petals and see nothing with the face of a poet really which is a flower and not a...
"so you want to be a writer"
unicornology:
tarts:
technicoloring:
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do it. if you’re doing it for money or fame, don’t do it. if...
“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...”
– The Tracey Fragments (via lococommotion) (via comebacktothesea) (via madamezucker) (via iguessthatscool) (via unicornology)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via littlemiss)
“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to...”
– Anthony Robbins (via thoughtsdetained) (via spaceships) (via robot-heart)
April 2009
96 posts
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and...”
– Melody Beattie (via littlemiss)
“You have no control over your cat! You can’t say to your cat, “Cat, heel! Stay!...”
– Eddie Izzard, Unrepeatable (via eddieizzard)
Characteristics that define a real man, according...
cathrinetaylor:
A man carries cash. A man looks out for those around him — woman, friend, stranger. A man can cook eggs. A man can always find something good to watch on television. A man makes things — a rock wall, a table, the tuition money. Or he rebuilds — engines, watches, fortunes. He passes along expertise, one man to the next. Know-how survives him.
A man fantasizes that kung fu lives...
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...”
– Gilda Radner (via littlemiss)
“It wasn’t only that you didn’t see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his...”
– Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon (via overflowing)