July 2012
59 posts
“I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone.”
– Rilke
(via proustitute)
June 2012
65 posts
“It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no...”
– Leonard Cohen. Courtesy of Whiskey River (via waitingforteaagain)
“Because he had dressed a doll in gorgeous robes and set her in a sanctuary to...”
– W. Somerset Maughan, The Painted Veil (via flyingodiva)
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am, still. No one has ever heightened such a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via faerieglitter)
“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via mirroir)
“I apologize to everything that I cannot be everywhere.
I apologize to everyone...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “Under a Certain Little Star” (trans. by Magnus J. Krynski and Robert A. Maguire)
“I have written down the words
I have long not dared to speak.
Dully the head...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Evening Room” in Poems, trans. D. M. Thomas (via proustitute)
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Cf. L.W. PI §256
legalfictions:
The August sun along the Attic vine And trailing down into the middle sea Until the night, which turned the wine to ink. This happened far too many times to count. The λόγος had a strange appeal for me At melancholy junctures. Part of this Was feeling that nobody else would know (Some animals prefer to die alone).
“In a moment we’ll pass across the world’s threshold
into a region—name it as...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, from “The Poets” (via proustitute)
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
– Voltaire (via mirroir)
“everything is lost except words […] at a certain moment for the person who has...”
– Leora Skolkin-Smith, “On Helene Cixous’ So Close” (via Time Immemorial)
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– “A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You,” Jon Sands (via clavicola)
“If a man once loved you,
he’s turned you into a moth.
That’s how he’ll...”
– “Angels and Moths,” Olena Kalytiak Davis (via clavicola)
“The end of the war gave us
light in the roots of trees.
We passed each other...”
– Charles Fort, from “The End of the War Gave Us” (via weissewiese)
“No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
No one knew...”
– Federico García Lorca, Gacela of Unforeseen Love, trans. W. S. Mervin (via yesyes)
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“Met up with a wonderful human being who shall henceforth be referred to only as...”
– the cinnamon peeler’s wife:
“THE IMPORTANCE OF SEX
BECAUSE IT BREAKS THE RATIONAL MIND.”
– ‘algeria’ by kathy acker (via pussy-strut)
“Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (via bookmania)
“The prose, this prose, becomes the source of my recollections. One by one it...”
– Jacques Roubaud, The Great Fire of London, trans. Dominic di Bernardi (via proustitute)
“People often ask me questions that I cannot very well answer in words, and it...”
– Inayat Khan (via thelostdeer)
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
– The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (via waitingforteaagain)
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“Why are you waiting? The squirrel in the pine tree
beats its torchlike tail on...”
– Eugenio Montale, tr. Dana Gioia
“We’re all mortal you know. Think mortal.
Because my theory is, there’s no such...”
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“I don’t love easily and become attached only to people whom I respect in my own...”
– Anaïs Nin (via descroissants)
“There’s a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and...”
– Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir (via litverve)
“The man who looks lost as he stands
in the sympathy card section at Hallmark...”
– “The Man Who Looks Lost as He Stands in the Sympathy Card Section at Hallmark,” Matthew Olzmann (via clavicola)
“you like to be swallowed
and i like
swallows.
your skin reeks of...”
– “When they squeeze us the wind splinters where we used to be, which is also where we are now,” Thomas Courtney Vance (via clavicola)
“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to...”
– Frederic Chopin (via allthingssoulful)
“So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse. (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk...”
– Anais Nin (via freins)
“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hospitalbombers)
“Truth, it seems, is various; Truth is to be pursued with all our faculties. Are...”
– Virginia Woolf (via sangfroidwoolf)
“Down there the scent of the sap and the flowers from the many gardens near the...”
– Henri Barbusse, Hell (translated by Edward J. O’Brien)
“Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear...”
– : ”Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised As A Love Poem,” Matthew Olzmann (via clavicola)
“I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it...”
– Catherine Breillat (via bebemoon)
“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
– T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker” in The Four Quartets (via mirroir)
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, Jazz (via daisydandelions)
“Lie down, lie easy.
Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”
– Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood (via waitingforteaagain)
“You turned twenty-two in the rain.
We walked in rubber boots
along Lowther,...”
– “Turning Twenty-Three,” Anne Michaels (via clavicola)
“It must be obvious that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly...”
– Alan Watts (via elige)
“One of the gifts of the evening hours
is darkness, a velt screen between your...”
– “Vespers,” Moira Egan (via mirroir)
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves. (via quiescences)
2 tags
“I keep a file of pick-up lines. Your smile
is bright enough to launch a...”
– Moira Egan, from Bar Napkin Sonnets (via theoryoflostthings)
“Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency.
What am I but an...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via mirroir)
“A poet worth reading lives in the present, which keeps changing continuously...”
– Charles Simic, “Poetry and Utopia” (via awritersruminations)
“The glass does not break because it is glass,
Said the philosopher. The glass...”
– A. E. Stallings, “Fragment” (via litverve)
