“STRANGER! if you, passing, meet me, and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?”
Walt Whitman - To you (Leaves of grass)
April 2nd, 2012
March 19th, 2012
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
W.H. Auden
March 13th, 2012
the one and only
March 11th, 2012
William Blake - Songs of Innocence
February 26th, 2012
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any courser like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without opress or toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson
February 25th, 2012
Divine Comedy
February 23rd, 2012
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
John Keats (via starsmending)
(Source: starsmended, via thestorycanresume)
February 12th, 2012
things we say today we owe to Shakespeare
January 19th, 2012
Painting not the thing, but its effect.
Stéphane Mallarmè
December 29th, 2011
The hardest
the hardest
birthday for me was my 30th,
I didn’t want anybody to know.
I’d been sitting in the same bar
night and day
and I thought, how long am I going
to be
able to keep up this
bluff?
when am I going to give it up and
start acting like everybody
else?
I ordered another drink and
thought about it
and then the answer came to
me:
when you’re dead, baby, when
you’re dead like the rest of
them.
December 5th, 2011
Bob Dylan
December 4th, 2011
Dylan
November 30th, 2011
“The backward look behind the assurance
Of recorded history, the backward half-look
Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”
— T. S. Eliot, from “The Dry Salvages” in The Four Quartets
(via booksnbuildings)
November 24th, 2011
Bob Dylan
October 22nd, 2011
to the crazy ones
