May 2012
“There’s another skin inside my skin
that gathers to your touch, a lake to the...”
– Anne Michaels, “Flowers” (via atomiclanterns)
“The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or...”
– Eckhart Tolle
"Passage"
In all the woods that day I was the only living thing fretful, exhausted, or unsure. Giant fir and spruce and cedar trees that had stood their ground three hundred years stretched in sunlight calmly unimpressed by whatever it was that held me hunched and tense above the stream, biting my nails, calculating all my impossibilities. Nor did the water pause to reflect or enter into my considerations....
Doc Watson, “Walk On, Boy”
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“There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the...”
– Rachel Carson (via thepaintedveil)
"Summer"
Summer, brilliant at the door wide, sweet shawl, green cicada bird calls, wild by the feeder and showers glisten on the rocks
and Woolf, hillocks, hammock, sea and rapture and nothing breaks just the sun’s spine on yours
just laughter with long teeth.
— Santiago (via growing-orbits)
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
“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)
"Hidden"
If you place a fern under a stone the next day it will be nearly invisible as if the stone has swallowed it.
If you tuck the name of a loved one under your tongue too long without speaking it it becomes blood sigh the little sucked-in breath of air hiding everywhere beneath your words.
No one sees the fuel that feeds you
—Naomi Shihab Nye (via rabbit-light)
“For years, I have come to sit this way:
one hand open, one hand closed…”
– Aracelis Girmay, from “Consider the Hands that Write This Letter” (via proustitute)
Bob Marley, “Soul Rebel”
“If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we...”
– Patti Smith (via daily-dissertations)
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via essentz)
“You cannot transform yourself… All you can do is create a space for...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via cougarchild)
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all...
"Loose Woman"
by Sandra Cisneros
They say I’m a beast. And feast on it. When all along I thought that’s what a woman was. They say I’m a bitch. Or witch. I’ve claimed the same and never winced. They say I’m a macha, hell on wheels, viva-la-vulva, fire and brimstone, man-hating, devastating, boogey-woman lesbian. Not necessarily, but I like the compliment. The mob arrives with stones and sticks to maim and lame...
The Diddys feat. Paige Douglas,...
"Samurai Song"
When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. When I had No supper my eyes dined. When I had no eyes I listened. When I had no ears I thought. When I had no thought I waited. When I had no father I made Care my father. When I had No mother I embraced order. When I had no friend I made Quiet my friend. When I had no Enemy I opposed my body. When I had no temple I made My voice my temple. I have No...
“A winter’s postponed nightmare cries out in my bones.
At my ankle a small wind...”
– Sandor Csoori, from “Postponed Nightmare” (translated by Len Roberts and Laszlo Vertes)
“Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via larmoyante)
“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant,...”
– Georges Bataille (via freyjageist)
“We remember the dark animals in dreams; they are the wind behind us. They are our history. I don’t know where I got this from, we say.”
—Sarah Kortemeier, from “The Dark Constellations” (via aubade)
“You are a mystery I promise I will never try to solve.”
– Stay, Andrea Gibson (via montyfox)
“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I...”
– Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (via boxofoctaves)
"She of Tioga Creek"
Marsh went mostly unnoticed then, and the sun’s tremolo through spruce shadows was just the context our desire used for your feet on the dash, and the outpost houses with their dead Chevys were mere residences for the dusk behind what we decided to say, and we were never the land we imagined ourselves, so there’s nothing of us to notice now, as I pass. Not even in the roadside park where we...
“Half my life is an act of revision.”
– John Irving (via penamerican)
“Every phenomenon arises from a field of energies: every thought, every feeling,...”
– Peter Brook, Gurdjieff: Essays and Reflections on the Man and his Teaching (Laura Dunn and David Ulrich via parabola-magazine)
