February 2012
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“I was teaching you the difference between I miss you
and you are missing from...”
– Summer Robinson, excerpt from there you go again drinking the lake of fire (via holdonmagnolia)
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“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not...”
– Saul Williams
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“Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow
did to you; I am old when it is...”
– excerpt from As The Sparrow by Charles Bukowski
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“I laughed loudly because I had drunk a lot and because, despite everything, I...”
– Lorrie Moore
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At this time you are really feeling quite exhausted by all the conflict and quarrelling that is going on about you and you are looking for some sort of protection from this state of affairs. Ideally you are seeking a peaceful condition and a tranquil environment in which you can be afforded the chance to relax and recover.
You don’t really give in. You follow your beliefs and ideals to the...
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“Everything tastes like love. That’s what
makes me nervous. That and I wish I...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Miss Peach: The College Years (via holdonmagnolia)
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I am going to die of dark water and small hands
the time bomb will go off and when it does you can wrap yourself in all of my poems.
— J. Clark
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“once someone told me
they were tired of
managing me and my
emotions
one man...”
– Kendra Grant Malone, excerpt from quiet as death (via holdonmagnolia)
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“if the lights are on or off, if we’re in the kitchen
or the bedroom, half-naked...”
– Alison Daniel, And I Really Don’t Care (via grammatolatry)
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“I wish I could say I was the kind of child
who watched the moon from her...”
– Dorianne Laux, Moon in the Window (via fleurishes)
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“My sister doesn’t write poems.
and it’s unlikely that she’ll suddenly start...”
– In Praise of My Sister by Wislawa Szymborska
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I am haunted by people I’ve never known. Humans who’s souls I’ve never had the chance to touch. Like the woman who’s tears still wet the ever-growing puddle of situations that could have been. Or the man who smoked an unfiltered cigarette as I tried to enjoy the sun’s dying rays. Or Fidelitas, who read his books as I read his ink while we both waited for the subway...
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“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people...”
– Mark Haddon
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Life has a way of taking on this monotonous droning on and on day by day whenever I begin to become too comfortable with what was originally a change.
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“Down near the bottom
of the crossed-out list
of things you have to do...”
– Tony Hoagland; The Word
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Yarn
That night when you kissed me I left a poem in your mouth. You can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
and it’s not the best thing I’ve ever written, I’m still working on my rhythm. My tongue gets tied sometimes, my throat gets dry, my hands start trembling.
Honestly? The only thing I’ve mastered is how to write a really good ending… but I’m getting pretty tired of finished...
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“The cold grows colder, even as the days
grow longer, February’s mercury vapor...”
– February by Bill Christophersen (via growing-orbits)
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“It’s arrogant to think you know what’s right. Morality is only cowardice most of...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks (via holdonmagnolia)
During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said, “You have a beautiful face.” By Douglas Heubler.
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“It pained him to hear Hervé Joncour softly saying, in conclusion:
“I have never...”
– Silk, Alessandro Baricco (via clavicola)
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“Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t...”
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (via growing-orbits)
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“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night (via growing-orbits)
January 2012
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“I said his heaven would be only half alive;
and he said mine would be drunk:
I...”
– Emily Bronte
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“‘Her voice reminded me for a minute of what heroin feels like sometimes – when...”
– James Baldwin
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Oh, he said he’d cure your ills but he didn’t and...