March 2012
104 posts
emmacherry asked: Have I ever told you how lovely you are, darling? x
February 2012
112 posts
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain (via thenocturnals)
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“His face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
– Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front
theunabridgedjournal:
I wanted to teach you what the Spring time taught the flowers.
“I had to restrain myself from putting my arm around his shoulders and kissing...”
– Franz Kafka (via lungsattachedbywires)
nocternity:
April 7, 1969
I feel so bad today that I want to write a poem. I don’t care: any poem, this poem.
- Richard Brautigan
Passing to Where?
Sometimes I take out my passport, look at the photograph of myself (not very good, etc.) just to see if I exist
- Richard Brautigan
“Nipples the colour of bare lips. She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
– Leonard Cohen (via woefultale)
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. + (via thenocturnals)
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
mitford:
I write to become historically alone
— S. Starkweather
Recordings by NASA, they are the sounds made by...
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
– Pablo Neruda (via larmoyante)
moledro
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S Lewis (St. Augustine)
mitford:
Bon Iver — Love More (Sharon Van...
“She looked at him; her look, passing through all that time and that emotion,...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
mitford:
mythologyofblue:
I am darkness leaping out of light.
— H. Melville
siftingflour:
mitford:
Damien Jurado — Working...
Sometimes I really believe it, that I am going to save my life a little.
— M. Oliver
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
– Stephen King (via misswallflower)
“Today in my heart
a vague trembling of stars
and all roses are
as white as my...”
– federico garcía lorca (via fauns)
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via la-fatale)