February 2012
40 posts
“Life is like an elevator: on your way up, sometimes, you have to stop and let...”
– Anonymous (via myquotelibrary)
“Let’s face it: I want it all — just like you and everybody else. It may not be...”
– Lauren Bacall
FOCUS
anthropologie:
a state or condition permitting clear perception; a center of activity, attraction, or attention; a point at which rays (as of light, heat, or sound) converge
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I...”
– Walt Whitman
The Street Window →
praguetell:
“Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere, whoever, according to the changes in the time of day, the weather, the state of his business, and the like, suddenly wishes to see any arm at all to which he might cling — he will not be able to manage for long without a window looking onto the street. And if he is in the mode of not desiring...
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau
I want nothing but silence Nothing but Silence Because with silence comes clarity With clarity comes Vision With vision comes waterfalls Waterfalls of crystallized concepts Concepts that make That make — That make sense
A lucid stream A lucid dream
But how can I hear the water flow With all this noise? It roars and roars
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“Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,...”
– from marginalia, billy collins
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I itch I itch with words that will not appear I itch, I scratch the surface of what it means to be To be comfortable, but Also true To be beautiful, but Also you You, hiding — who? That one moment When you spoke with your eyes You told me just
You told me just who you are
It flickered, yes, a fleeting Moment But it happened just the same
I saw you, did you see me? Because it was in that
...
January 2012
106 posts
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’ve seen the end of this but never the whole of it. It’s all good. All of it.
“It’s amazing I’ve lived this long without destroying a person.”
– Maurice Sendak
