February 2012
165 posts
Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering...
– Ted Hughes (via cartographe)
… of golden figures
that breathe like mountains do
and whose skin is...
– Joanne Kyger, from “September” (via seabois)
Here is a handful
of shadow I have brought back to you:
this decay, this hope,...
– Margaret Atwood, from “Mushrooms” in Selected Poems: Volume 2 (via proustitute)
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
– Pablo Neruda (via f0xfur)
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...
– Oscar Wilde (via whatokay)
I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens....
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories (via holdonmagnolia)
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via seabois)
I.
Our kiss is a secret handshake, a password.
We love like spies, like...
– Mindy Nettifee, “This is the Nonsense of Love” (via fleurishes)
It isn’t whether. No. Only: how long until
how bad it gets. Our quick, our...
– Jessica Piazza, Suppose (via grammatolatry)
I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...
– Charles Bukowski (via faisceau)
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We can’t turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot,...
– Thomas Wolfe (via cartographe)
What we must do,
I suppose,
is to hope the world
keeps its balance;
what we...
– Mary Oliver, from “The Owl Who Comes” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)