April 2012
“Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.”
– Galway Kinnell (via takemetocoatcheck)
“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That is the only thing that...”
– T.H White (via whatokay)
the cinnamon peeler's wife: L’Inconnue de la Seine... →
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L’Inconnue de la Seine (the “unknown woman of the Seine” was an unidentified young woman whose death mask became a popular fixture on the walls of artists’ homes after 1900. According to an often-repeated story, the body of the young woman was pulled out of the Seine River at the Quai du…
“I don’t imagine you
saran-wrapped in black latex
or seeping out the edges
of...”
– “Skin 2,” Shane Koyczan (via clavicola)
“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via elige)
“Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in...”
– “Valentine,” Carol Ann Duffy (via clavicola)
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither...”
– Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (via idressfancy)
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Camel: A Love Story
Camels have lovely eyelashes. Have you ever noticed that? Rivaled only by giraffe’s. (And, possibly, my high school boyfriend…lucky bastard…but I digress.) They’ve got to be genetic pen-pals or something. Anywho. Back in 2007, when I was studying art in Florence at SACI, a group of us travelled to Dubai. Have you ever heard of Dune Bashing? No?
Well, let me enlighten...
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getting "measured"
my dear friend -my first roommate in college, actually -is soon to be married in september, and, darling girl, she wants me for a bridesmaid. you should know. bridesmaids must wear dresses. it’s a point of much contention on the wedding forums, a debate in which the Bride To Be stands firmly on the side of “clothes,” much to my disappointment. (does nudity not make the most...
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sabotage field guide we’ve all been there planted...
“In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on...”
– “Lilacs,” Amy Lowell (via somme)
“Love hard when there is love to be had.”
– Bob Marley (via tylerknott)
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland,
I notice the ring that’s landed on...”
– “The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy,” Jeffrey McDaniel (via clavicola)
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'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:
train tracks always meet, not here, but only
in the impossible mind's eye;
horizons beat a retreat as we embark
on sophist seas to overtake that mark
where wave pretends to drench real sky.'
- Sylvia Plath - Love Is A Parallax
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“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose or if your...
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)
“I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink...”
– Anaïs Nin (via toutematendresse)
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the story that's left unwritten, the one where you...
yes, stillborns are the worst. {because imagination will not stop you from devising new beginnings, middles, ends, whereas life reminds you that, for some stories, you do not hold the pen. you are not even the author. you are a character: She spoke too often about herself, claims it was because she hoped I would reciprocate, but I don’t know. When we kissed, she made noises that she said...
