December 2010
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“Always so late in the day
In their rumpled clothes, sitting
Around a table lit...”
– Always by Mark Strand (for Charles Simic)
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Some early resolutions
Next year, I would like to reblog less and say more. Quotes and photos are cop-outs for the most part but I guess it can’t be helped when the going gets going!
But yes, less quotes and reblogs and more talking and sharing ideas.
“We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we...”
– Ben Okri
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (1960) -...
“Narrowly constructed, the present is never and always. It is here and gone with...”
– Michael T. Isenberg
“For this I’ll weep all my days—
for the sweetness of the sun
for the splendid...”
– Kalevala (via aubade)
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Prayer of St. Anselm
Lord Jesus Christ; Let me seek you by desiring you, and let me desire you by seeking you; let me find you by loving you, and love you in finding you.
I confess, Lord, with thanksgiving, that you have made me in your image, so that I can remember you, think of you, and love you.
But that image is so worn and blotted out by faults, and darkened by the smoke of sin, that it cannot do that for...
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“The difficult I’ll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.”
– Billie Holiday
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The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the...
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via theunabridgedjournalsof & wordpainting)
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners...”
– Marcel Proust (via yama-bato)
Edvard Munch is the true expressionist.
fuckyeahexistentialism:
From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am...
“Eating in general would be different, every day, at every meal. It is like...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out...”
– C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets.”
– — Poppy Z. Brite (via mlq3)
This is true.
just for me
sometime before autumn kicked in, mom came home from the States with a plaid shirt of my uncle’s that i pull out every now and then just to have him close. does the hurt ever really go away? i miss him a lot. maybe Bill Waterson was right: I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
“People have a great opinion of the advantages of experience. But in that...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-line (via invisiblestories)
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“This organization practices civil obedience, that is, we are an organization...”
– Julian Assange (via corruptpolitics & jjarichardson; source: TIME)
This is beginning to make more sense.
“Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me.”
– D.H. Lawrence from “Song of the Man Who Has Come Through” (via aperfectcommotion)
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay...”
– William Wordsworth, from “The World is Too Much With Us” (via libraryland)
This is for always.
“The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to...”
– Virginia Woolf (How Should One Read a Book?)
YES YES YES!
“Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye. From Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
This deserves a repost considering how crazy my day went. Too many confessions for one evening, love. Too many.
But if anything, I came home intact with this Naomi Shihab Nye thought in mind. It’s true. We deal quite well.
“I never thought they would care about particularities, so I never told them that...”
– The Lazarus Project, Aleksandar Hemon. (via therescue)
People have been asking about this book, and what I think of it. I’m not very far along (page 44), but I find it to be very, very beautiful.
(via presidents)
I love that you love him! I have him here as well. I don’t want to finish with...
“…in everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a...”
– “Kafka on the Shore”, Haruki Murakami (via ieseiesei)
daniellesmellsliketeenspirit:
Baby it’s cold...
“When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone...”
– David Whyte, Sweet Darkness
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who...”
– Anna Quindlen
“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live...”
– William Styron
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via liquidnight)
