astronomicarum of the moonlit mind

"That which is known has value only by virtue of the dark. This cannot be otherwise. A thing known..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:25:16 -0400

“That which is known has value only by virtue of the dark. This cannot be otherwise. A thing known passes out of the mind into the muscles, the will is quit of it, save only when set into vibration by the forces of darkness opposed to it.”

- William Carlos Williams

"I have an endless scream in me…"

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:05:42 -0400

“I have an endless scream in me…”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 21:26:03 -0500

“Could it think, the heart would stop beating.”

- Fernando Pessoa

Photo

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:31:40 -0500

"There’s a beast on the margin of my dream, a frothing white thing eager to fling me crashing..."

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:23:39 -0500

“

There’s a beast
on the margin of my dream, a frothing white thing
eager to fling me crashing against rock.

There’s no way out.

”

- Claire Keyes

"The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:37:02 -0500

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

- Edgar Allan Poe

"I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:00:29 -0500

“I have lived on the lip
of insanity, wanting to know reasons,
knocking on a door. It opens.
I’ve been knocking from the inside.”

- Rumi

"There’s a tyranny of language in my fluted bones."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:52:41 -0500

“There’s a tyranny of language in my fluted bones.”

- Yusef Komunyakaa

"I craved him constantly, so deeply it was a physical ache"

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:15:40 -0500

“I craved him constantly, so deeply it was a physical ache”

- Friedrich Nietzsche (via nirvikalpa)

Aaron Copland, How We Listen

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:47:00 -0500

Aaron Copland, How We Listen

The more you erase me, the more I feel myself disappear.

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:37:27 -0500

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."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:07:46 -0500

“If I respect myself and believe in what I’m doing, no one can touch me.”

- Fiona Apple (via nirvikalpa)

"Dissolving the body is a simple trick. Ring a low circle of candles about the middle of the page...."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:46:23 -0500

“Dissolving the body is a simple trick. Ring a low circle of candles about the middle of the page. Light a taper at its center. Stare into the flickering until you split.”

- Danielle Vogel, Clasp

"Am I “distant”? I would not say so. I suppose I am cleverly untouched. Most ironically."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:15:49 -0500

“Am I “distant”? I would not say so. I suppose I am cleverly untouched. Most ironically.”

- 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, doleful,..."

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:10:18 -0500

“… everything
is wrapped silently in the snow’s winding sheet,
I hear—long, doleful, blood-curdling—the howl of wolves
invade you…”

- Angelos Sikelianos, from “Dionysus Encradled,” trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

(thanks, modernworldlit) (via proustitute)

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)

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:19:09 -0500

I love you. I am keeping this forever.

"observe / the tilt of the sun / as it pauses to collect its sighs"

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:06:49 -0500

“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

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:32:15 -0500

Plans for winter break include drawing, painting, and taking more photos of the moon

"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:26:13 -0500

“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”

- Charles Bukowski

"You look like a winter night, (…) I could sleep inside the cold of you."

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:43:43 -0500

“You look like a winter night,
(…) I could sleep inside the cold of you.”

- Catherynne Valente, Deathless (via shesinacoma)