February 2012
“The phoebe sits on her nest
Hour after hour,
Day after day,
Waiting for life...”
– May Sarton
Thank you Aesthetics of the Invisible World and Wait - what? (via silencesounds)
“i grew up watching your hands arrange space, so i find it very natural that when...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via beryl-azure)
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Aldous Huxley, Island (via moreofamore)
“You came into the heart of our grief.
This is a house dressed in black.”
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– René Descartes (via mythologyofblue)
“Deserve your dream.”
– Octavio Paz (via roymtz)
“… we have become the present.
We must talk now. Fear
Is fear. But we abandon...”
– George Oppen, from “Leviathan” (via proustitute)
Wait - what ?: If you were to let the charge of... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
If you were to let the charge of life run through your body a bit more freely, if you were to contain it a little less steadfastly, would you be able to endure it? It actually takes practice to tolerate a higher volume of this “life juice” flowing through you. This is not an effortful practice,…
“Pourquoi ai-je choisi la photo ? C’est que son côté magique m’a toujours...”
– Denise Bellon
via (via yama-bato)
“The Seller closed his door and watched as the Collector walked on down the...”
– William Kotzwinkle, The Curio Shop (thank you, inspiretherain)
“Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I...”
– Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (via libraryland)
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via atomos)
“The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
of an endless past....”
– Shinkichi Takahashi, from Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Shadow and light always go in pairs. The Mother, companion to Aurobindo, insists...”
– Alphonse Goetmann, Dialogue on The Path of Initiation: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karlfried Graf Durckheim (New York, NY: Globe Press Books, 1991), p. 61 (via crashinglybeautiful)
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
staff:
One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm....”
– Alejandra Pizarnik, The Bloody Countess (1971)
(extracted from a lengthier, stunningly suggestive extract posted by lecollecteur)
J.K. Rowling to Publish First Adult Novel →
tinyisles:
J.K. Rowling has inked a deal with Little, Brown Book Group and Little, Brown and Company to publish her first novel for adults. The publisher did not reveal the title or publication date, but the novel will be published in print and eBook formats.
Little, Brown Book Group publisher David Shelley will edit and publish for UK readers; will be responsible for publication in the United...
“When you are right, you cannot be too radical … The question is not whether we...”
– The Martin Luther King Jr. that doesn’t get quoted. (via absurdreasoning)
“In a life of writing books, I have often, believe me, been lost in the maze of...”
– -Foe, J.M. Coetzee
via stickyembraces: (via libraryland)
