May 2013
42 posts
“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via seraphmachine)
“Poetry is made in a bed like love
Its rumpled sheets are the dawn of things”
– André Breton, from “On the Road to San Romano”, in The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry, trans. Mary Ann Caws (via litverve)
“As soon as it is remembered that philosophizing does not consist in addressing...”
– Søren Kierkegaard as Johannes Climacus in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (via existenti-al)
“In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via nietzsche-spoke-thus)
“You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and...”
– Anais Nin As I’ve said many times before, Anais Nin is the author that made me start writing myself. I’m fascinated by her relentless, fearless exploration of herself. She was a tender, flawed, fascinating woman. She left behind tender, flawed, fascinating work. (via clementinevonradics)
“And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.”
– Anna Akhmatova, You Will Hear Thunder, trans. D. M. Thomas (via proustitute)
“I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime....”
– Ray Bradbury (via avec-des-sentiments)
“Deleuze et moi ne pensons pas du tout à la mort de la philosophie, nous pensons...”
– Félix Guattari. La philosophie est essentielle à l’existence humaine.
(via avec-des-sentiments)
“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to...”
– Hermann Hesse (via arpeggia)
“It is possible to be loved (passive voice) without knowing it, but it is...”
– Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship. Trans. George Collins. London: Verso, 1997 ed. p.9.
(via dangerousfailures)
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life...”
– Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot (via petrichour)
“For the sake of a line of poetry one must see many cities, people, and things,...”
– Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, trans. by Burton Pike (via mythologyofblue)
“She can’t help it,’ he said. ‘She’s got the soul of a poet and the emotional...”
– Stephen King (via forget-them-wendy)
“Missing someone is like hearing
a name sung quietly from somewhere
behind you....”
– Excerpt from “Slow Dance,” Tim Seibles (via commovente)
“Only a lacking, vulnerable being is capable of love: incompleteness is in a way...”
– Zizek (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
“Artaud said: to write for the illiterate—to speak for the aphasic, to think for...”
– Gilles Deleuze, What is Philosophy? (via heteroglossia)
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism....”
– Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via heteroglossia)
“My Angel, my all, my own self, only a few words today: Be calm — love me — today...”
– Ludwig Van Beethoven, from Letters 1790-1826 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“For the “(loved) other,” l’autre (aimé) must remain other, must be kept safe as...”
– John D. Caputo, “For the Love of the Things Themselves: Derrida’s Hyper-Realism” (via heteroglossia)
“Jacques Lacan reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on...”
– Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love (via heteroglossia)
“Nature is a temple where living pillars
Let escape sometimes confused words;...”
– Charles Baudelaire, Correspondences, 1857
“You look at me, you look at me closely, each time closer and then we play...”
– Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch
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“The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks...”
– Anna Akhmatova, Anna Of All The Russias: A Life Of Anna Akhmatova (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I never learned to live. In fact, not at all! Learning to live should mean...”
– Jacques Derrida, 19 August, 2004 (via heteroglossia)
“What special affinities appeared to him to exist between the moon and woman?
...”
– James Joyce — from Ulysses (via slothnorentropy)
“What’s this about gentle irresolution and ambiguity? Isn’t it grand, isn’t it...”
– Thomas Mann — from The Magic Mountain (via slothnorentropy)
April 2013
44 posts
“It’s hard to remember what you fall in love with. Usually it is an expression in...”
– Francesca Lia Block, The Elementals (via audreylostinparis)
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Magnetism (via theotherway)
““Supernatural,” Apollinaire
Whispered, having climbed the nrrow stair
Into the...”
“He followed the sun, and she followed the stars; and in dreams they listened...”
– StoryPeople, Brian Andreas (via fromliterature)
“There are some things one cannot seize by realism, but by sheer poetry. I feel...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume I 1931-1934
oh Anaïs
(via warzonetourism)
“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your...”
– Sarah Ruhl, Eurydice (via awritersruminations)
