June 2012
102 posts
May 2012
109 posts
“Whatever I looked at was alive, everything had a voice,
but I never found out...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Fragment, 1959,” trans. Stephen Berg
paul4allseasons:
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
rolandscapes:
The big deaths are usually too much for us to bear or comprehend, so it is that the small deaths hurt us the most.
“Leave the dishes.
Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator...”
– “Advice To Myself,” Louise Erdrich (via clavicola)
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they...”
– Anaïs Nin (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”
– Anna Quindlen (via thesweetestspots)
“And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will...”
– (via journalofanobody)
“She had seen fear: the terrible helpless fear that rises up out of sadness and...”
– Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key (translated by Damion Searls)
“I know you are reading this poem
late, before leaving your office
of the one...”
– “XIII (Dedications),” Adrienne Rich (via clavicola)
“Here is a handful
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope,...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Mushrooms” (via mertseger)
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline...”
– Henry Miller (via naomijade)
“One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It’s one of...”
– Carlos Fuentes (via booklover)
“Don’t be afraid. The future is not disguised
as sleep. It is a tango. It...”
– Traci Brimhall, from “Through a Glass Darkly” (via proustitute)
