May 2013
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The comforts
of language
are true
and deep;
– Mary Oliver, from “If You Say It Right, It Helps the Heart to Bear It” in Evidence (via litverve)
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IF I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can...
– Emily Dickinson - Complete Poems, 1924
Part One: Life VI
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The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
– Michael Altshuler (via leslieseuffert)
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Put your mouthful of words away
and come with me to watch
the lilies open in...
– Anne Sexton, from “From the Garden” (via weissewiese)
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The love of books. My library is an archive of longings.
– Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via sketchofthepast)
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Now I will wrap my agony inside my pocket-handkerchief. It shall be screwed...
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via seasofquotes)
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apoetreflects:
“Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.”
—Carl Jung, from Dreams, Memories, Reflections,with Aniela Jaffé (Pantheon Books, 1963)
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April 2013
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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the...
– Bessie Anderson Stanley (via paperimages)
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You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars...
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a...
– Anne Carson, Eros: The Bittersweet (via litverve)
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Be yourself. You’re okay.
– Yohji Yamamoto (via ugh)
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear and vivid and cruel! One...
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via idratherbereading)
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This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart...
– Mary Oliver - “Peonies” (New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1)
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All you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you....
– Rita Mae Brown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
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