May 2013
34 posts
“And my song needs to breathe: poetry isn’t poetry
and prose isn’t prose. I...”
– Maḥmoud Darwish, from “Sonnet I” in The Butterfly’s Burden, trans. Fady Joudah (via proustitute)
“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me...”
– Francesca Lia Block (via skeletales)
“I am an idealist. I do not know where I am going but I am on my way.”
– Carl Sandburg (via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)
1 tag
“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are...”
– Elizabeth Lawrence (via lajoiedespetiteschoses)
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
– A. A. Milne (via natashakills)
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.”
– Helen Keller (via larmoyante)
“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via soul-surfer)
“Kant said that the history of philosophy was a battlefield. He was absolutely...”
– Alain Badiou, The Enigmatic Relationship between Philosophy and Politics (via deaths-and-entrances)
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via seabois)
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism (via theotherway)
April 2013
61 posts
1 tag
milklake:
“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.” ― Rudolf Steiner
“Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful...”
– (via jenini)
“I didn’t want to turn out boys who in later life had a deep love of literature,...”
– The History Boys by Alan Bennett (via amchatfield)
1 tag
“Sometimes, very quietly and graciously, you can inspire other people by showing...”
– Erin O’Connor (via stylelikeu)
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien (via cosmic-rebirth)
