January 2012
3 posts
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
– Rudyard Kipling (via languagemagic)
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not...”
– Graham Greene (via understandingear)
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via misswallflower)
December 2011
12 posts
You know you're a lit nerd when you are planning...
“Young people are prone to foolishness & fads; the cure comes through...”
– Proverbs 22:15 (via 500daysofzyrah)
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows)
“It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and...”
– ― Yevgeny Zamyatin, A Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have,...”
– Marlene Dietrich (via misswallflower)
splintersandmilkshakes:
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.”
~ Robert Frost
November 2011
36 posts
“Who knows where the road will take us
Only a fool would say
But if...”
– Frank Sinatra
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play...”
– Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (via thebronzemedal)
“The world was hers for the reading.”
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via sunsets-sunrises)
“Something well said is something well said, but something superbly said is a...”
– Lewis Putnam Turco (via everythingisecstatic)
“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is...”
– J. Krishnamurti (via cite-belle)
“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the...”
– John Green (via sorra)
“I saw your lips, your nakedness, the trees,
that dappled light. I dreamt of...”
– Luke Davies, from “[If every step taken is a step well-lived]” (via the-final-sentence)
“Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to...”
– Aldous Huxley (via kurt-l-fahrenheit)
“This particular juxtaposition of the spoken and the unspeakable was eerie and...”
– Joan Didion, “The White Album” (via leopoldgursky)
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury (via paperlover)
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via slaterleecombes)
“Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain (via alyzasquotes)
“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about...”
– St. Augustine (via girlwithoutwings)
“Buy ALL the books!”
– Me, every time I enter a bookstore (via iloveeucalyptus)
“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but...”
– Anne Carson (via davidbarrie)
“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become...”
– François de la Rochefoucauld (via amiamberlynn)
“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to...”
– Rilke (via creatingaquietmind)
“There’s no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)
“We did not change as we grew older. We just became more clearly ourselves.”
– Andy Warhol (via liveelearnlovee)
↖ Falls in love with characters, not actors.
“So Kim Kardashian is getting a divorce, 72 days after a wedding that is...”
– Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times columnist and journalist (via nakedslate)
“Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work….All...”
– Chuck Close (via ivyosbourne)
“Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore...”
– Alain de Botton (via misswallflower)
“Books. The more I thought about how to stop and get myself back together as one...”
– Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading (via bookoasis)
“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper’s Magazine (via bookoasis)