Defenestration of Prague

"Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things—they save you."

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:43:47 -0500

“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things—they save you.”

- Chuck Palahniuk. (via color-blind)

"What I have loved so far, I have loved in order to be able to love you."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:58 -0500

“What I have loved so far, I have loved in order to be able to love you.”

- Paul Celan, from a letter to his wife Gisèle, 1952 (via pfelps)

mythologyofblue: The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:39 -0500

mythologyofblue:

The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing.

-Karl Ove Knausgaard, “A Death in the Family” (via writteninsentences)

"I’d like to know: once you’re happy what happens? What comes next?"

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:52:28 -0500

“I’d like to know: once you’re happy what happens? What comes next?”

- Near the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector

"Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:46 -0500

“Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.”

- Near the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector

"The result of those days wandering here and there, repudiating and loving the same things a thousand..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:06 -0500

“The result of those days wandering here and there, repudiating and loving the same things a thousand times over. Of those nights living on dark and silent, the tiny stars winking up high. The woman lying on the bed, vigilant eye in the half-light. The hazy white bed swimming in darkness.”

- Near the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector

Atlas Hands— Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:18:00 -0500

Atlas Hands— Benjamin Francis Leftwich

fullbloom: Hortus Noctis: Kristin Vestgard

Wed, 15 May 2013 11:09:51 -0500

fullbloom:

Hortus Noctis: Kristin Vestgard

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Tue, 14 May 2013 15:59:22 -0500

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Tue, 14 May 2013 12:52:36 -0500

red-lipstick: Cendrine Rovini - L’implongée, 2012 ...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:24 -0500

red-lipstick:

Cendrine Rovini - L’implongée, 2012 Drawings

"I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 11:48:48 -0500

“I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm”

- Benedict Smith (via diluvie)

"110. {…} But now I realize that it was more likely the result of spending ten hours or more..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:16:06 -0500

“110. {…} But now I realize that it was more likely the result of spending ten hours or more staring at saturated orange, blue’s spectral opposite. This is a simple story, but it spooks me, insofar as it reminds me that the eye is simply a recorder, with or without our will. Perhaps the same could be said of the heart. But whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided.”

- Maggie Nelson, Bluets

"53. We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:14:50 -0500

“53. We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object—this is the so-called systematic illusion of color. Perhaps it is also that of love. But I am not willing to go there—not just yet. I believed in you.”

- Maggie Nelson, Bluets

"All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 11:12:34 -0500

“All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”

- Maggie Nelson, Bluets (95)

"It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” —Naguib..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:34:38 -0500

““It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.” —Naguib Mahfouz, from Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy, Volume 3 (Anchor, 2011)”

- A Poet Reflects:

"The sonata emerging from a convertible at a stoplight, the bits of inadvertent poetry buried in a..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:33:40 -0500

“The sonata emerging
from a convertible at a stoplight, the bits of inadvertent poetry buried in a book on weather—these are the sorts of things I think about, talk about, when for one reason or another I can’t say what I really mean. What I mean is—when I see your face in the dusk I understand the desire of the rain. Each timeyou happen to me all over again: that’s the real surprise,
the persistence of passion.
—Aleda Shirley, from “A Dwelling in the Evening Air” in Long Distance (Miami University Press, 1996)”

- A Poet Reflects:

iapplehoney: to find the purest love

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:23:53 -0500

iapplehoney:

to find the purest love

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Sat, 11 May 2013 17:04:05 -0500

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