March 2012
there are two strangers
jamiesueaustin:
in the room— flashing in the dark, are my two secrets, in guise of men —not men really— but feral wants— watch the polite conversation between the acquaintances, civilly strained, like symbols of mistakes and triumphs— pillars for my closet and the dank dark places under my floor boards
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“Wind driven tonight,
clouds ripping
over the city
shrouds of silver...”
– Tito Titus
“If you stand
there long enough the air will thicken
with dusk and...”
– Philip Levine, from “How to Get There” (via proustitute)
Leonard Cohen on meditation
zenhumanism:
Crashingly Beautiful: Leonard Cohen on Meditation
crashinglybeautiful:
“…You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own…
February 2012
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“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
– Arabic proverb (via absea)
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
– Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this...”
– Richard Brautigan (via absea)
“In the thickets of language every creature is wild.”
– Ivan Vladislavić’s “Dictionary Birds”, The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories.
(towirr)
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of...”
– Charles Baudelaire (via blackgirlboobs)
“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take...”
– Dianne Setterfield (via texassiren)
“Improving with agelike a fine wineyour words make me wantto drink you right...”
– outofherhead:
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse...”
– Albert Camus (via absea)
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so...”
– Alan Watts (via absea)
The Proper Address Of Trees
lookingforwisdom:
trees should be addressed by their proper titles according to their places in arboreal society poplar ash and birch should be treated as familiar along with the pines and firs “mister” and “miss” are appropriate to their station
among the fruit trees apples and pears are “sir” cherries and peaches are “madam” (I’m at a loss to explain this difference) the maples and elms we...
“I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via absea)
“A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to discover, through the detours of...”
– ALBERT CAMUS
(via journalofanobody)
“After the Earth dies, some five billion years from now, after it’s burned to a...”
– Carl Sagan (via absea)
“We just don’t embrace insanity here. We feel it up, french kiss it, then...”
– unknown
“Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows,...”
– Alan Cohen (via moreofamore)
god of the doorway
kerrycoxpoetry:
Arc sharp blessed, French-pressed mornings between car doors and quills less porcupine than myth Where big and treacherous torments have pooled under Persian rugs, beneath old furniture pristine, standing You need sense and rhythm, you say between breaths and bronchial barroom brawls, I sit smooth and silent for a change. Talking too much, you said, worried about gaps and...
“None of your neurons know who you are…nor do they care”
– Eduard Punset
thx http://oldowan.tumblr.com/ (via clothedinsky)
“Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”
– GOP strategist Alex Castellanos (via think-progress)
