March 2012
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“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”
– Charles de Secondat (via julie911)
February 2012
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Ginsberg
eating-poetry:
No blame. Anyone who wrote Howl and Kaddish earned the right to make any possible mistake for the rest of his life. I just wish I hadn’t made this mistake with him. It was during the Vietnam war and he was giving a great protest reading in Washington Square Park and nobody wanted to leave. So Ginsberg got the idea, “I’m going to shout ‘the war is over’ as loud as I can,”...
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“The humanist insistence on an autonomous, willful human subject capable of...”
– What It Means To Be Human by Joanna Bourke. (via mehreenkasana)
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“[this is a sacred story.]
I write down a line
that turns into two
...”
– Hali Sofala, from “Mamalu” (via the-final-sentence)
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“I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
– Marshall McLuhan (via misswallflower)
“Because paper has more patience than people.”
– Anne Frank (via forgivethelost)
“Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and the flowers...”
– Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical (via fizzyvater)
“Discipline allows magic.
To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins....”
– Lili St. Crow (via amandaonwriting)
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archaeosaur:
social anxiety is when successfully ordering a pizza over the phone makes you feel like a champion
