February 2012
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself (via secretedsins)
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The...”
– Paul Brunton (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“We need solitude, because when we’re alone, we’re free from obligations, we...”
– Tamim Ansary, West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all...”
– Mary Oliver
“I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s...”
– Cristina Garcia
“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about...”
– Nicole Krauss, (The History of Love)
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird. (via paperbackgirl)
“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to...”
– Douglas Coupland (via amandaonwriting)
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“There are no beautiful things without a terrible depth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Recall your thoughts inward, and if while contemplating yourself, you do not...”
– Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)
“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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“Why is it, that as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding...”
– Ernest Gaines
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“If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system to help one woman, man,...”
– Wonder Woman
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Coat by Vicki Feaver
heartuntamed:
Sometimes I have wanted to throw you off like a heavy coat. Sometimes I have said you would not let me breathe or move. But now that I am free to choose light clothes or none at all I feel the cold and all the time I think how warm it used to be.
“Squeeze me harder now
and let your hands show my back
how much you missed me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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secretedsins:
A Song of Despair
(Poema de Amor XX)
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.”
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so...
“The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be...”
– e.e. Cummings
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
– George MacDonald (via misswallflower)
“Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would...”
– Tamora Pierce (via misswallflower)
“The wound is the place where the light enters the body”
– Rumi
“Identity is not a bunch of little cubby holes stuffed respectively with...”
– Gloria Anzaldua (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950)
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“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become...”
– Libba Bray
“Pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take...”
– Maya Angelou (via gloriacat)
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“Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...”
– Carl Sandburg (via mocasia)
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“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard P. Feynman
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“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely...”
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via loveyourchaos)
