February 2012
Aria | The Goldberg Variations (Bach) | 1981...
“There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as...”
– octavio paz
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with candy will lead children into the sea. The naked woman on the ledge outside the window on the sixteenth floor is a victim of accidie, or the naked woman is an exhibitionist, and it would be “interesting” to know which. We tell ourselves it makes some difference whether the naked woman is about to...
“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism” (via golehyas)
For Grace, After a Party →
nantes:
You do not always know what I am feeling. Last night in the warm spring air while I was blazing my tirade against someone who doesn’t interest me, it was love for you that set me afire,
and isn’t it odd? for in rooms full of strangers my most tender feelings writhe and bear the fruit of screaming. Put out your hand, isn’t there
an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside the bed? And someone...
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way,” Girl With Curious Hair (via abrutalkind)
“She made of the motions of her wrist
The grandiose gestures
Of her thought.”
– From Wallace Stevens’ “Infanta Marina” (via aclockwithouthands)
January 2012
diane arbus
“there are and have been and will be an infinite number of things on earth. Individuals all different, all wanting different things, all knowing different things, all loving different things, all looking different. everything that has been on earth has been different from any other thing. that is what I love: the differentness, the uniqueness of all things and the importance of life… I see...
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote this.
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever read.
(via jamesthepious)
“I would like to remind
the management
that the drinks are watered
and the...”
– Leonard Cohen (via adsertoris)
“Tonight there must be people who are getting what they want.
I let my oars fall...”
– Jennifer Michael Hecht, “September” (via awritersruminations)
Franz Schubert - Ständchen
15 of the Deadliest Corporations →
These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.
I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the cigarette...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via hitchcockblonde)
“Another year
has past - the world
is no different.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
December 2011
rebeccaartemisa:
A tracing of Louisa May Alcott’s hand made just before her second birthday.
source
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our...”
– E. Merrill Root (via elige)
List of people who disappeared mysteriously →
(youmightfindyourself): This is a list of people who mysteriously disappeared, and whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, as well as a few cases of people whose disappearance was notable and remained mysterious for a long time, but was eventually explained.
“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing...”
– FRANK O’HARA, “Mayakovsky” (via southernfriedvegetarian)
“Sit down. Inhale. Exhale.
The gun will wait. The lake will wait.
The tall...”
– Gwendolyn Brooks, To The Young Who Want To Die (via vaginawoolf)
