December 2011
“Naming the things of this world
you begin to own them.
Cyclamen. Mustard.
I...”
– Shirley Kaufman, from “Drifting” (via proustitute)
Romney wants ads during Sesame Street →
eris-said:
There are a lot of really valid reasons to dislike Mitt Romney on a political level.
This right here? This one sums up why I think he’d be a nightmare as president.
America -as a culture and and economy- is based on wild, unnecessary consumerism that we are bred to believe in from the time we are very small. Analysts have been telling us for decades that even the youngest among us...
“I learn by going where I have to go.”
– Theodore Roethke, from “The Waking” (via the-final-sentence)
“[But the constricted light,
the year closing down on itself with all
the...”
– Linda Pastan, from “The Letter” (adapted from soulsublime)
“Where does it come from? This quest? This need to solve lifes mysteries when the...”
– Mohinder Suresh, Heroes 1x23 (via embracetheworldingrace)
“Quick dance, shuffle of losses and leaves,
only the things I didn’t do
crackle...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Burning the Old Year” (via proustitute)
Wait - what ?: End of the Year Poems, 3 Earlier... →
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
End of the Year Poems, 3
Earlier this year I heard Billy Collins, a former poet laureate of the United States, read a selection of his poems. Of course, I had no prior idea what he would read but I was delighted when he read “Japan,” the only one of his poems that I have…
“When your only female character exists to be battered and abused, that is lazy...”
– Monica Byrne.
Zing.
(via mehreenkasana)
“I read of primroses in the paper. Primroses! Oh, what wouldn’t I give for some...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett, 22 December 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
“Evil is a growing thing
It has its own gravity
and never answers to its name...”
– Fanny Howe, from “One Night in Balthazar” (via proustitute)
“Such is a silence
of a woman who
speaks against silence, knowing
silence is...”
– Ilya Kaminsky, from “Deaf Republic: 10” (via weissewiese)
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs (via girlinlondon)
