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“Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.”—Stephen Dunn (via likeafieldmouse)

Apr 19, 20141,467 notes

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Apr 19, 20145,830 notes

Apr 18, 20146 notes

“Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don’t know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It’s that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don’t know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.”—Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (via larmoyante)

Apr 15, 20143,821 notes

“April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.”—T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (via mrsclarkkent)

Apr 9, 20141,041 notes

“

I asked an old man:

“Which is more important?
To love or to be loved?”

Old man replied:

“Which is more important to a bird?
The left wing or the right wing?”

”—Author Unknown (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

Apr 9, 201448,340 notes

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Apr 7, 20143 notes

#elizabeth schmuhl #dance #poetry #video

Glitter Pills

To live a serious life

that’s a fucked up thing

I would have to rent out a cabin

beneath terrible angels

if I get old wipe the dust off my tits

I should have a serious log cabin

the cabin’s name is Ben Fama.

find directions on the internet

when you want to leave you can

I’ll stay there just me and my heart

bigger than the sun

Apr 1, 20143 notes

#ben fama #poetry

“poetry is what follows you when you run from it”—Mark Leidner, The Angel in the Dream of Our Hangover (via lkwldn)

Apr 1, 2014217 notes

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”—John Cage (via likeafieldmouse)

Apr 1, 20142,727 notes