February 2012
199 posts
“Forever is composed of nows.”
– Emily Dickinson (via musingsinfemininity)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do...”
– Mark Twain (via tittysandpancakes)
“The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.”
– Joanna Macy (via crashinglybeautiful)
“My sister told me a soul mate is not the person
who makes you the happiest but...”
– Sierra DeMulder, “Love, Forgive Me” (via atomiclanterns)
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via lavenderbones)
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...”
– Georges Bataille, Guilty, (via foxesinbreeches)
“We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Margins, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky [via criterioncorner] (via skibinskipedia)
“Of all your old photographs, I wanted
this one for its becoming. I think
you...”
– Gabeba Baderoon, from “Old Photographs” (via proustitute)
“It was your idea
to park and watch the elephants
swaying among the trees
like...”
– “The Two Times I Loved You Most In A Car,” Dorothea Grossman (via saisonlune)
le printemps: David Whyte, “Self Portrait” →
airwalker:
It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you.
If you can look back with firm…
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via lostsplendor)
“The real writer is one
who really writes. Talent
is an invention like...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
“Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.”
– Audre Lorde (via thingsandschemes)
