February 2012
49 posts
“Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.”
– Charles Simic (via clavicola)
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
– Franz Kafka (via shesinacoma)
“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass on the...”
– Miranda July (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson (via booksandnerds)
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via swardsward)
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?”
– Franz Kafka (via shesinacoma)
kosmologia asked: I followed you before I even looked at your blog, just because of your blog name (it's beautiful). However, it turns out your blog is beautiful as well. Have a lovely night xx.
“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
– Leonard Cohen (via seabois)
“I lived in peace and dreamt of war.”
– from my diary, 27 February 2011 (via goldenlocket)
evaandmadge:
All of Me, Billie Holiday
“All the world had frowned on her,—for seven long years had it frowned upon this...”
– The Scarlett Letter (via kyliekollmeier)
“I’m very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There’s...”
– Michael Gambon (via rabbitinthemoon)
mitford:
I am going to die of dark water and small hands the time bomb will go off and when it does you can wrap yourself in all of my poems.
— J. Clark
“I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via lavenderbones)
lavenderbones asked: Oh you are the sweetest! Thank you, thank you, thank you. You are lovely too, and your message really brightened my day. Hope you're well xx
Why do i even bother trying to make friends? I feel like the biggest idiot.
“I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka , 1904 (via inherwar)
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small...”
– Anne Sexton (via vulgivagus)
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
– Roland Barthes (via dissevers)
“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this...”
– Walt Whitman (via misswallflower)
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via madame-curie)
impaledsiilence:
Frank Sinatra - These Foolish...
Why did i gain so many lovely followers today? Thank you!
“Moonlight making crosses
on your body, and me putting my mouth on every one.”
– Richard Siken, Crush (via volutation)
“.. she believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she...”
– Sunflower, Gyula Krúdy (via winterlief)
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to...”
– Margaret Atwood (via songsforbirds)
Please, tell me...
Do you believe in past lives?