May 2013
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t...”
– Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959
“Joan of Arc came back as a little girl in Japan, and her father told her to stop...”
– Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
2 tags
“I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of...”
– Pablo Neruda
3 tags
“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there’s nothing...”
– Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poems
Anonymous asked: What should I do if everyone I know gets annoyed or ignores me whenever I try to open up to them?
“Also you are a fool to seek the kind of art you don’t like. You are a fool to...”
– Ezra Pound, “The Serious Artist”
“There’s nothing in the world that loves you
more than the space you already...”
– Rebecca Hazleton, “Love Poem for What It Is” (via atomiclanterns)
“Archaeologists have not yet discovered any stage of human existence without art....”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Beauty Will Save the World (via buried-denmark)
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via pederost)
3 tags
“You give them designer bags, your time,
Lucky star origami, an A+ for the...”
– Soyen, Poems are like fire
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life...”
– Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism....”
– Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence...”
– Stephanie Georgopulus
“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”
– Virginia Woolf, from Night and Day (Duckworth, 1919)
VANISHING ACT
fleurishes:
Learning to love my body is still not an easy thing. I stand in front of the mirror and trace what is
reflected back at me: long limbs, rounded shoulders, the wheeling nipples that hang from my breasts,
rose-brown. I curl a lock of dark hair around my finger and tug hard on it. I wrap it around my neck like
a scarf. Like hanging wire. Is this how I’d want them to find me? ...
“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
3 tags
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
2 tags
“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
