January 2012
13 posts
“Another year
has past - the world
is no different.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
December 2011
30 posts
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)
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (via proustitute)
(nmattea): merry christmas, baby, otis redding
“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“The day was sliding
toward its provincial graveyard
and between the bread and...”
– Pablo Neruda, from “To Sadness,” trans. Stephen Mitchell in Selected Poems (via proustitute)
1 tag
an orchestra tuning
“Ask ten adults to define a slut and you’ll hear things like: a woman who has sex...”
– Emily Maguire- Princesses & Pornstars
This is the best definition of slut I have ever, ever heard/read: a mythical creature dreamt up by people who are jealous of or threatened by female sexual expression
(via squeetothegee)
Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond... →
1. You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock. 2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far greater than...