February 2012
92 posts
“We spoke all night in tongues,
in fingertips, in teeth.”
–
Robert Hass, from “Spring”
(via the-final-sentence)
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and...”
– Anne Stevenson
“When we belong to the world
we become what we are.”
– Anne Stevenson, from “Poem for a Daughter” (via the-final-sentence)
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
– Joan Didion, The White Album
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill...”
– Anaïs Nin
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
– Anaïs Nin
“He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I...”
– Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (via lydianea)
“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you,...”
– Richard Siken
“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord...”
– Anais Nin (via boomkitty)
“Maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“I no longer want it all,
just some comfort
and some sex
and only a minor...”
– Love is a Dog from Hell - Charles Bukowski (via boomkitty)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles...”
– Maya Angelou (via enchanting)
“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things:
to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver (via spoonsaslegs, creampuff)
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be...”
– Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“22. Gone means might come back.”
– Robyn Art, from “Myths about Certainty” (via grammatolatry)
“If we only walk on sunny days we’ll never reach our destination.”
– Paulo Coelho (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“Our bodies meshed in an aftermath of effort. We were one and the same dark...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions II, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
