January 2009
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“Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because...”
– Poetry 365: The Red Poppy, Louise Glück (via sleepanddream)
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“There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.”
– Tennessee Williams (via kari-shma)
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Psalm and Lament
The clocks are sorry, the clocks are very sad. One stops, one goes on striking the wrong hours. And the grass burns terribly in the sun, The grass turns yellow secretly at the roots. Now suddenly the yard chairs look empty, the sky looks empty, The sky looks vast and empty. Out on Red Road the traffic continues; everything continues. Nor does memory sleep; it goes on. Out spring the...
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“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will...”
– T. S. Eliot
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“But come here, fear
I am alive and you are so afraid
of dying.”
– Joy Harjo (via aggressive)
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“The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we...”
– Bernhard Schlink
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“The world may be tiny but the heart’s enormous.”
– Shu Ting
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“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will...”
– 95 Poems (via eecummings) (via kari-shma)
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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via aodouls) (via breathsoftruth)
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“I said: why? Did I do something wrong? Is there something wrong? Is there...”
– Arkaye Kierulf
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“as all the faces become walls and all the walls become impossible.”
– Bukowski
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via kari-shma)
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“But some emotions don’t make a lot of noise. It’s hard to hear pride. Caring is...”
– Unknown (via kari-shma) (via lovebot)
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“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via aggressive) (via leahcreates)
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“The toughest sacrifices are the ones we don’t see coming, when we don’t have...”
– Meredith Grey (via julie911) (via thresca)
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“I had you. Right there with me. I had you living in my life and I was alive.”
– Francesca Lia Block
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“And on every stranger’s face I see a flash of agony: Why not? Why not a...”
– Maura Stanton
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“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”
– Nicole Krauss
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
Ezra Pound
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“I guess I know, I just hate how it sounds.”
– Finger Eleven
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“And sometimes hurt is not of the body.
More often it is words, or lack thereof....”
– Unknown. (via justlia)(via kari-shma)
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“Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it...”
– Yogi Desai (via skysignal) (via thresca)
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“Think of how different it would be if you never met the person who changed...”
– (via headlights) (via breathsoftruth) (via closertotheocean) (via sleepanddream)
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“Everything comes down to not being listened to any more”
– Albert Camus : kjohnson (via lalanii) (via breathsoftruth) (via expectoomuch) (via somethingmeaningful)
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“…the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
– Chuck Palahniuk. (via lickystickypicky) (via kari-shma) (via ellens)
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