January 2012
54 posts
“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the...”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie (via skysignal)
December 2011
42 posts
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck, from “In Awe of Words,” The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University (1930)
“Evil is a growing thing
It has its own gravity
and never answers to its name...”
– Fanny Howe, from “One Night in Balthazar” (via proustitute)
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your...”
– Terence McKenna, The Archaic Revival (via whiskey river)
“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via proustitute)
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese (via whyhellodear)
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
– Dalai Lama (via kari-shma)
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via kari-shma)
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via bardsandsages)
“I can’t remember what it felt like to be in love with you. I just know that...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Forest Of The Moon (via kari-shma)
“If we only walk on sunny days we’ll never reach our destination.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“When you wake to the dream of now
from night and its other dream,
you carry...”
– William Stafford, from “The Dream of Now” (via ahuntersheart)
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via kari-shma)
“This is the time of tension between dying and birth
The place of solitude where...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Ash Wednesday” (via proustitute)
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,...”
– Bruce Lee (via quote-book)
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (via proustitute)
“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
– Larissa Szporluk, from “Sea Lettuce” (via ahuntersheart)
“Free solo: dearest, I am losing you,
not now (one hopes!) but slowly, over...”
– David Yezzi, from “Flatirons” (via proustitute)
“Ourself behind ourself, concealed—
Should startle most—”
– Emily Dickinson, from “[One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted]” (via proustitute)
