January 2012
2 posts
“Moonlight
is sculpture,
sunlight
is painting.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), American writer (via cosmicowlchild)
“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like...”
– D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English novelist (via cosmicowlchild)
December 2011
3 posts
It's thundering.
thetruthisone:
The thunder matches my rising Kundalini.
The rain does too. Everything does.
Everything is me.
poetry
November 2011
14 posts
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts...”
– Charles Bukowski (via like30ninjas)
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew (via darkcanuck)
NYPD destroyed 5,000 books at #occupylibrary, as...
egotrippingg:
youthiswasted:
The image of NYPD officers destroying books - tearing down a library - is one which should spark outrage around the world. It is no wonder that the cowardly policemen conducted their raid under the cover of darkness and by suppressing the media so that there would be few or no images of their misconduct.
A culture which would destroy books is a culture which has...
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch (via eternalconsciousness)
“There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully,...”
– Oscar Wilde. (via mindgamesss)
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– Dead Poets Society (1989)
“Faulkner, You Don’t Have a Story to Tell!”
lettersandlight:
To get you ultra-ready and inspired for NaNoWriMo, literary expert Celia Blue Johnson—author of the new book Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway: Stories of Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature—has a few behind-the-scenes anecdotes to share about those classic novels we know and love. (Here’s Part 1.)
No, you didn’t misread the heading above. William Faulkner’s publisher...
An Early Start: A Q&A with Eva Ridenhour
lettersandlight:
At eight years old, Eva Ridenhour already defies expectations about what it means to be a writer. Eva writes, illustrates, and publishes her own stories, and has already toured the country selling her own work alongside her father, novelist Jamieson Ridenhour. She’s also uploaded a series of short writing lectures about her process, which you can find on her site. Eva was...
"And yet the only exciting life is the imaginary...
psychodelic:
Virginia Woolf
October 2011
7 posts
“‘I’d like to write something that comes from things the way wine...”
– http://l-aquoiboniste.blogspot.com/search/label/Quotes
1 tag
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate...”
– Noam Chomsky (via actias)
12 tags
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via liquidnight)
4 tags
“And so my heartaches kept growing and growing, and I saw myself going more and...”
– Arthur Rimbaud (Délires I: Vierge folle - L’Époux infernal) (via larrydimick)
1 tag
“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”
– Paulo Coelho (via elige)
6 tags
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (via makingeletricity)
September 2011
9 posts
“With freedom, books, flowers and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via zepgasm)
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes,...”
– Stephen King (via bury-my-castle)
4 tags
3 tags
“You were drawn to poetry by something nothing
satisfies but poetry”
– Brenda Hillman, “In the Room of Glass Breasts” (via awritersruminations)
ambedo
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.
11 tags
“Often down here I have entered into a sanctuary; a nunnery; had a religious...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 10 September 1928 (via proustitute)
“There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.”
– C.S. Lewis (via clonazepamm)
August 2011
5 posts
sunshinewoman:
I’m convinced that all of the pens and pencils in my house are sentient beings that communicate telepathically and tell each other to hide when I’m looking for one of them
2 tags
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...”
– Noam Chomsky (via flueedo)
1 tag
July 2011
8 posts
“At least I have the flowers of myself,
and my thoughts, no god
can take that;...”
– H.D., “Eurydice” (via the-final-sentence)
7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up... →
The Wise Woman's Stone
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a
precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another
traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her
bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the
woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew
the stone was worth enough to...
June 2011
4 posts
