June 2012
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“There is something exemplary to the sensation of near perfect lightness, of...”
– Chang-rae Lee (via buryyourselfinwords)
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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a...”
– Dylan Thomas
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“Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.”
– Thomas Hardy
May 2012
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“The earth is speaking to us, but we can’t hear because of all the racket our...”
– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via larmoyante)
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“In 100 years we’ll all be dead. That’s kinda creepy, if you think about it, but...”
– Richard Siken, Love From a Distance (via larmoyante)
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“(If I were like you. If you were like me.
Did we not stand
under one trade...”
– from Language Mesh, Paul Celan
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“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying...”
– Thomas Hardy
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“All lovers live by longing, and endure:
Summon a vision and declare it pure.”
– Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind: The Collected Verse (via larmoyante)
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Anonymous asked: I need your help. Can you help me with something. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, what are some symbols? And how do these symbols relate to the novel's central theme? Please. I'm stuck. I do not know.. x
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“Whether or not it is worth it it occurs. Whether or not it is to be believed it...”
– from Love, by Ariana Reines
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“Whatever I looked at was alive, everything had a voice,
but I never found out...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Fragment, 1959,” trans. Stephen Berg (via proustitute)
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“This is not my teeming fate, my rind, my roiling ellipsis or valedictory spray...”
– from Plume, by Aaron Shurin
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Anonymous asked: What kind of music do you like to listen to when you write?
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“I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all....”
– Elizabeth Scott, The Unwritten Rule (via larmoyante)
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“A heave of afternoon light pulls a tulip from the turf, a bower for locusts, a...”
– Cool Dust, Aaron Shurin
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“[…] and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be...”
– Tim O’Brien
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“If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
...”
– Mari Evans, “[If there be sorrow]” (via litverve)
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“It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to...”
– Wendell Berry, Marriage (via flentes)
