June 2012
154 posts
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via larmoyante)
“To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not...”
– Vintage Books & Anchor Books
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BOMB Magazine: Weekend Reads — Anne Carson and... →
bombmagazine:
Candor by Anne Carson
A poem made for Roni Horn out of the titles of five of her sculptures. Could 1 If you are not the free person you want to be you must find a place to tell the truth about that. To tell how things go for you. Candor is like a skein being produced inside the belly day…
“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but...”
– Lillian Hellman (via larmoyante)
“Doing it the inefficient way, you use the senses. You look at a row of spines,...”
– Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind - NYTimes.com
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
– Charles Bukowski, Pulp (via larmoyante)
“I am eternally grateful…for my knack of finding in great books, some of them...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake
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“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
– Albert Camus (via larmoyante)
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“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
– Albert Camus (via amandaonwriting)
FRANK O'HARA
poetrysince1912:
It’s a summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world. —Poetry, May 1970 This and other “LGBTQ Pride Poems” available on our website and on Pinterest.
“Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure...”
– David Wojnarowicz, Close the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
“And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One...”
– Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother. His new book, The Red House, is available now. (via doubledaybooks)
“It’s a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or...”
– Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (via larmoyante)
“I really do like listening to stuff that’s happened to other people. I guess...”
– S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now (via larmoyante)
“It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination.”
– Patti Smith, Just Kids (via starswithplanets) 