April 2011
“Alzheimer’s is like having your entire life written out in chalk and then washed...”
– Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love (via distantheartbeats)
“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world...”
– Octavio Paz. Thank you, Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Your head is a living forest full of song birds.”
– e. e. cummings
(mariposite)
“I don’t really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages,...”
– Angela Carter, in her collection of essays and reviews, Expletives Deleted (1992)
“Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something...”
– Elliott Kay (via loveyourchaos)
These are hard times for dreamers: Top 10 Myths... →
booklover:
suzywire:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to do with being an Introvert. Introverts are not necessarily afraid of people....
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or...”
– — Madeleine L’Engle
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“What if the things I believed were possible were really impossible, and the...”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (via listentoabook)
“Do you know what I would answer to someone who asked me for a description of...”
– The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin
“There’s no her and me, nor I and she, just us and we.”
– “We Attached” by Vanessa Weibler Paris
“To see a World in a grain of sand
and a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity...”
– William Blake (via troopersheart)
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via psychotherapy)
“A society’s competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach...”
– Albert Einstein (via ish07)
“My heart is ticking like the sun:
A lonely cloud drifts in the sky.
I dread...”
– Philip Larkin (via noussommeslesreveurs)
