January 2010
37 posts
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Theodor Geisel (via weallseekthetruth) (via quote-book)
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong...”
– Voltaire (via sigvard)
“You are calm and reposed. Let your beauty unfold. Pale white, like the skin...”
– ~ Brand New (via gatekeeper)
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel...”
– Edgar Allen Poe (Annabel Lee) (via sweetambiguity)
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you...”
– Maya Angelou (via sweetambiguity)
“Conjurer: Good-bye.
Patricia: I shall not say good-bye.
Conjurer: You are...”
– Magic by G. K. Chesterton (via misswallflower) (via sleepandchocolate)
“The smile you made me wear, I thought it was the most beautiful gift.”
– Subtlyunrequited (via subtlyunrequitedlove)
“The path that I walk on,
the flag of the guidepost,
the footsteps walking...”
– from Akagami no Shirayukihime by Akizuki Sorata
The world pauses, the end feels clear,
maze of wondering, so hollow it grieves.
As my tears melt, on my skin.
O, what can I do?
To call ‘come save me.’
Will I still be breathing?
Haiti, keep believing.
The buildings are falling,
Haiti, please don’t give in.
A mother’s kneeling,
Haiti will be grieving.
The child is still crying
Haiti is bleeding.
Her legs keep on stumbling,
...
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“Going on a journey means going to another place. Wherever the wind leads us,...”
– from the press release for Hermes Voyage d’Hermes by Jean-Claude Ellena
“when life is quite through with
and leaves say alas,
much is to do
for the...”
– (via eecummings) (via quote-book)
One Day
subtlyunrequitedlove:
Sometimes it’s hard to take it all in,
The silence, the lonely words,
The dark paths to my own world,
I am a lover to everyone,
‘Cause I love too much and I love especially you,
But it keeps digging on me too,
When no one’s there to love me back,
It’s the loneliness that drive me to cry out,
To explode, to spin, to shout,
To come up with reasons to still believe,
...
I will never stop dreaming.
(via sweetambiguity)
“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”
– James Dean (via nakedwords) (via quote-book)
“Every writer has commitment issues. We are terrified to commit to our words,...”
– Brittany Parrick (via azyrian)
Please Find This: The Transplant in the Subway... →
icarianscribl:
You held up your hand, curled your fingers in and said “This is how big your heart is. As big as a fist.” I held up my hand, closed it over yours and said “No. My heart will always be bigger than your fist.”
Beautiful.
faded-dreams:
bunnymitford:
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not...
Just As Great
subtlyunrequitedlove:
There are things in this world that are too awesome.
They are too awesome compared to me.
I am just a tiny being among other tiny beings.
Though some other beings are bigger than tiny.
Nevertheless, I am as tiny as I can be,
As vulnerable as that leaf dangling on a branch of a tree.
But one thing is for sure, one thing is without doubt.
My love is for him, for him...
“the children of haiti
are not mythological
we are starving
or eating salty...”
– Lenelle Moïse, “Mud Mothers” Blog This Rock: Split This Rock Poem-of-the-Week (via curate)
Everyone has a story
sweetambiguity:
They are a melting pot of the good times, sad times, and all those times in between. They inspire novels, movies, and the fondest of memories between old friends. They can be inspiring, depressing and all the shades of careless emotions that we spit out because we’re too afraid to peg it for what it really is. Life.
Pure, unadulterated, messy, confusing, epic, maddening, real.
...
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“If I had a wish, I would wish that the sound of the turning pages of my story...”
– from Akagami no Shirayukihime by Akizuki Sorata
Some Final Words
fairphantom:
crashinglybeautiful:
I cannot leave you without saying this: the past is nothing, a nonmemory, a phantom, a soundproof closet in which Johann Strauss is composing another waltz no one can hear. It is a fabrication, best forgotten, a wellspring of sorrow that waters a field of bitter vegetation. Leave it behind. Take your head out of your hands and arise from the couch of...
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via whattheycallreality) (via libraryland) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Create a Morning Writing Ritual
the-write-idea:
By: Leo Babauta
If you’re like most writers, you procrastinate. You have a hard time getting started writing, unless you’re seized by a burst of inspiration. Instead, you might do some “research” online, fiddle with your to-do list, or work on a number of other tasks instead of doing the writing you need to do.
If you’re having trouble getting your writing done, try creating a...
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“Poetry is the doorway to the soul.”
– Floria
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Black March I call him
I always enjoy reading articles in the internet, poems and artistic inspiration. One day, as I was browsing through perfumer Christopher Brosius’ work in his perfume line, CB I Hate Perfume, I came across his online journal on the CB I Hate Perfume website. There I discovered his inspiration for the fragrance M#2 Black March, which was a poem entitled “Black March,” by Stevie...