May 2012
11 posts
“Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like...”
– Anna Kamienska, A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
“Truth is a serpent in the grass
telling you to eat the apple.
The fruit drips...”
– Apostatements, The Heimlich Maneuver.
“The legions of warriors hunting glory have been replaced with uncountable...”
– Apostatements, The Digital Coliseum.
“In the midst of death, life persists.
In the midst of untruth, truth persists....”
– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, On God (1931)
“Most of the advice I give to artists boils down to this: If you don’t feel...”
– Only the strongest - The Mission Paradox Blog (via bridgettelizabeth)
“Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the...”
– T.S. Eliot, from “East Coker” from Four Quartets (via awritersruminations)
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
– Chekhov (via wwnorton)
“This is the prerogative of childhood: to move in complete freedom between magic...”
– from “Images” by Ingmar Bergman, translation by Marianne Ruuth (via kodistes)
“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
– May Sarton, born May 3, 1912 (via wwnorton)
“But, I think, the future is also another thing:
a verb tense in motion, in...”
– Angel Gonzalez, from “The Future” (translated by Steven Ford Brown and Gutierrez Revuelta)
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via nathanielstuart)
April 2012
17 posts
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I looked upon the moon,
longing to knead and pull it into shape
that I might...”
– W.B. Yeats, The Shadowy Waters (1906)
“I have died too many times
believing and waiting, waiting
in a room
staring...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“Paradox though it may seem - and paradoxes are always dangerous things - it is...”
– Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying” (via libraryland)
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(via girlinlondon)
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov (via wordpainting)
“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean,
and frightening that it...”
– The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart- Jack Gilbert (via krrnpoetry)
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.”
– Latin Proverb (via dirkhanson)
“Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust...”
– Oliver Cromwell (via nathanielstuart)
“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch...”
– Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City (via shakespearneverdidthis)
“Rumors say the secret of life is sewn
into a dead man’s coat, but when we...”
– Traci Brimhall, from “Come Trembling” (via awritersruminations)
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– Pablo Picasso (via tusha)
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via theweirdthewonderful)
“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and...”
– Alex, A Clockwork Orange (via wwnorton)
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via libraryland)
“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.”
– Benjamin Franklin (via girlwithoutwings)
March 2012
25 posts
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that...”
– Nikola Tesla (via nathanielstuart)
“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via nathanielstuart)
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
– Voltaire (via nathanielstuart)
“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, “Symbols and Signs” (via awritersruminations)
“Love means nothing to me if it’s not fortified with fierce, painful longing,...”
– henry rollins, on long distance (via tusha)
“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘universe’, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via sleepypsychedelia)
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a...”
– Marcus Aurelias (via theweirdthewonderful)
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth —more than ruin —more even...”
– Bertrand Russell (via topsecretatheist)
“i don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but i ask you to remember....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via tallskinnyasian)
“Everything that Richard Nixon did to me, for which he faced impeachment and...”
– Daniel Ellsberg (via socialuprooting)
“I’m frightened of people who believe in just one story. The advantage of...”
– A Conversation With Stephen Dunn (via wwnorton)
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– Albert Einstein (via missfolly)
“We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via libraryland)
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via libraryland)
“Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example but by the experience of it.”
– Robin Hobb, Fool’s Errand.
“The question screaming at us through [these bills] is whether the war on terror...”
– Is America on the Verge of Theocracy? 4 Fundamentalist Ideologies Threatening U.S. Liberty | | AlterNet (via nathanielstuart)
“There, in front of us, where a broken row of houses stood between us and the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory.
“The wake itself remains, etched out across the water’s surface; then it fades as...”
– Tom McCarthy, C.
“God is dead. Marx is dead. Lenin is dead. Gandhi is dead. I am alive and not...”
– Graffiti, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. May 1983.
“The blue river is gray at morning
and evening. There is twilight
at dawn and...”
– Jack Gilbert, “Waking at Night” (via apoetreflects)
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the...”
– Carl Jung
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no...”
– Carl Jung (via psychedelic-freak)