April 2013
“That which is known has value only by virtue of the dark. This cannot be...”
– William Carlos Williams
March 2013
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“I have an endless scream in me…”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”
– Fernando Pessoa
February 2013
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“There’s a beast
on the margin of my dream, a frothing white thing
eager to...”
– Claire Keyes
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“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a...”
– Rumi
January 2013
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“There’s a tyranny of language in my fluted bones.”
– Yusef Komunyakaa
“I craved him constantly, so deeply it was a physical ache”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via nirvikalpa)
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The more you erase me, the more I feel myself disappear.
“If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.”
– Fiona Apple (via nirvikalpa)
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“Dissolving the body is a simple trick. Ring a low circle of candles about the...”
– Danielle Vogel, Clasp
“Am I “distant”? I would not say so. I suppose I am cleverly untouched. Most...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 20 March 1933. (via dwales)
“… everything
is wrapped silently in the snow’s winding sheet,
I hear—long,...”
– Angelos Sikelianos, from “Dionysus Encradled,” trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (thanks, modernworldlit) (via proustitute)
elvedon asked: I fall in love while reading your words, if ever you create a book of all your words, I would love to have a copy xx (I hope you are well and are enjoying some nice chamomile tea)
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“observe / the tilt of the sun / as it pauses to collect its sighs”
Plans for winter break include drawing, painting, and taking more photos of the moon
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“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
– Charles Bukowski
December 2012
“You look like a winter night,
(…) I could sleep inside the cold of you.”
– Catherynne Valente, Deathless (via shesinacoma)
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“Often —and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human...”
– Franz Kafka
“I am half agony, half hope.”
– Jane Austen. (via mirroir)
lilacboudoirs asked: Your blog is positively perfect! Do you have any favorite writers?
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“A clutch of syllables tied with white string…
A humming through in...”
– Danielle Vogel, Clasp
“… everything
is wrapped silently in the snow’s winding sheet,
I hear—long,...”
– Angelos Sikelianos, from “Dionysus Encradled,” trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard (thanks, modernworldlit) (via proustitute)
November 2012
“The only escape, I think, is to work the mind.”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 11 March 1930. (via dwales)
“What if some night Cassiopeia
fell apart,
splashed down like water?
What...”
– Lynne Knight, from “Against Order” (via mirroir)
October 2012
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“The wind is the moon’s imagination wandering.”
– Saul Williams
“The night alone understands you.”
“Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window...”
– Alain de Botton (via dwales)
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“If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips...”
– Charles Bukowski
cleveralice asked: your blog is so wonderful, I'm overwhelmed
“The sun turns like a pinwheel. It counts
its radiant, radioactive petals,...”
– Oni Buchanan, from “The Sun Turns Like a Pinwheel” (via proustitute)
“The mathematician is only complete in so far as he feels within himself the...”
– Goethe
lenenuphar asked: I just wanted to say that your blog is very beautiful. I love it! Do you study astronomy or something like that? You seem pretty smart. Love, xx
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“I do not know more than the sea tells me…
…[the] repeated spell
...”
– Robert Duncan, Achilles Song
“There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And...”
– Robert Service, from “The Call of the Wild” (via dwales)
September 2012
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“Night outside. Inside, lack of air, the flame consumed.
What darkness always...”
– Edmond Jabes, Elya
“Since
it is not permitted
to dissect human beings I have
in fact nothing to...”
– Anne Carson, from “Freud (1st Draft)” in Men in the Off Hours (via proustitute)
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“What matters is the telepathic stream, uniting writer and reader in a state of...”
– Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics
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“Like two negative numbers multiplied by rain…”
– Jane Hirshfield 