October 2011
223 posts
“And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so...”
– Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (via -rosasparks-)
“I am nothing but words,
just a shape
of dreams or night.”
– Euripides, Herakles, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“Silent friend of many distances, feel how your breath still multiplies all...”
– Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheu (via sleepinginthesnow)
“That’s how it is sometimes—
God comes to your window,
all bright light and...”
– Dorianne Laux, from “Dust” (via proustitute)
“The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.”
– Oscar Wilde (via edmundindreams)
“He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via poorghosts)
“I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off...”
– Jack White (via forestsong)
“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.”
– T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (Four Quartets)
“the winds that blow —
ask them which leaf on the tree
will be next to go”
– Takahama (via yama-bato)
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches,...”
– Neil Gaiman (via zxzv)
“All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.”
– Meher Baba (via gardenofthefareast)
“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day…But when I follow at my pleasure...”
– Ptolemy (via nathanielswhite)
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