June 2012
1 post
Hmm.
By Eleanor Davis.
May 2012
26 posts
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
– Winston Churchill
Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the...
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (via emotional-algebra)
12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry →
juliasegal:
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!
2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
…I will show you something different from either Your...
Find what you love and let it kill you.
– Charles Bukowski (via jalousie)
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...
– Charles de Montesquieu
electrikthunder:
Chairlift - Met Before (Girls & Bass version)
Rien ne distingue les souvenirs des autres moments : ce n’est que plus tard...
– Chris Marker
Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our...
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (via whimsicalele)
On synesthesia.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter
– John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain →
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
– Banksy (via nirvikalpa)
Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who...
– Hunter S. Thompson
April 2012
14 posts
it’s a lonely world of frightened people, just as it has always been.
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
4. Be in love with yr life
5....
– Jack Kerouac, http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html
long ago, among other lies, they were taught that silence was bravery.
– Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (via henrycharlesbukowski)
look, Mike, no man is
invincible.
some day
you’ll be sent mad by
eyes...
– Charles Bukowski, “Love is a Dog From Hell”
she didn’t do
anything
unusual.
I only wanted her
to.
– Charles Bukowski, “Love is a Dog From Hell”
I liked looking on at other people in critical situations. If there was a road...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
March 2012
6 posts
for I consume and
am consumed
– Charles Bukowski, “A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself”
my heart like something cut away from
cancer will feel and beat again feel
and...
– Charles Bukowski, “A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself”
Our natures do pursue,
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
A thirsty...
– William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Ruder forms survive.
– Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Remarkable that a person can comprehend so little and yet live in such a complex...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
February 2012
1 post
nobody can save you but
yourself.
you will be put again and again
into nearly...
– sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems - Charles Bukowski (via spiritd3sire
)