February 2012
69 posts
“May God bless you with discomfort
at easy answers, half truths, and superficial...”
– Franciscan Benediction (via discosherpa)
“If you want to be my lover, you’ve got to get with my friends.”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
nezua:
Your new super power is remaining aware of what is in your control, and what is not; to firmly grasp the former, to let the rest slip into the wind.
“Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches,...”
– Walt Whitman (via justbesplendid)
“The one realization I have come to after four years is that I can still make all...”
– From the Archives: Colvin ‘78 reflects on Yale career | Cross Campus | Yale Daily News
I wish I believed this.
“We have the power to heal what needs to be healed. We get to give ourselves...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #97: You Have Arrived At The Fire - The Rumpus.net
“What is poetry? Poetry is clumps of words that make people feel something.”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Poetry FAQ.
“Yes: I am alone on earth: I have always been alone…Do not think you can frighten...”
– Joan in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (via promptsrus)
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
– Audre Lorde (via nezua)
oh hey sex week keynote!
“I stressed the love situation and I still think I was right. Because it’s very...”
–
Julia Kristeva | ‘Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward’ in The Portable Kristeva (via nezua)
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #73: I’m... →
“But what does this do to us: this refusal to quantify love, loss, grief? Jewish...”
– The Sun Magazine | The Love Of My Life
“Whatever we say
we know there is another
language under this one”
– W. S. Merwin, from “To the Tongue” in Present Company (via crashinglybeautiful)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Joan Didion... →
“The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.”
– John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter - Maria Popova - Entertainment - The Atlantic
“First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing —...”
– John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter - Maria Popova - Entertainment - The Atlantic
“I am as lost here on the face of the earth as he was. Maybe one of the reasons...”
– THE LONELY VOICE #16: Between The Public And The Sky (Part One Of Five Stray Thoughts On Kafka) - The Rumpus.net
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via bearsbeatsboys)
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via teenageperfectionist)
“You aren’t afraid of love, sweet pea. You’re afraid of all the junk you’ve yoked...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #41: Like An Iron Bell - The Rumpus.net