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volatile-vixn — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:50:53 -0400

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LitSluts.: You Are Tired (I Think) by E.E. Cummings

volatile-vixn — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:31:36 -0400

LitSluts.: You Are Tired (I Think) by E.E. Cummings:

You are tired,

(I think)
Of the always puzzle of living and doing;
And so am I.

Come with me, then,
And we’ll leave it far and far away—
(Only you and I, understand!)

You have played,
(I think)
And broke the toys you were fondest of,
And are a little tired now;
Tired of things that break, and—
Just tired.

"I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the..."

volatile-vixn — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:37:12 -0400

“I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”

- Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via light-essence)

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volatile-vixn — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:57:52 -0400

"I wish slitting the wrist of the clock would let this moment last forever"

volatile-vixn — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:45:59 -0400

“I wish slitting the wrist of the clock
would let this moment last forever”

- Jeffrey McDaniel, from “Caracas” (via helplesslyamazed)

mymythology: 45 mercy street by cdrummbks on Flickr. One of my...

volatile-vixn — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:10:52 -0400

mymythology:

45 mercy street by cdrummbks on Flickr.

One of my favorite books of poetry…published posthumously.

"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy..."

volatile-vixn — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:48:16 -0400

““The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.””

- J.D. Salinger, De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period, Nine Stories (via salingering)

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway..."

volatile-vixn — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:29:04 -0400

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

- Henry David Thoreau (via creatingaquietmind)

"If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged."

volatile-vixn — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:28:28 -0400

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via helplesslyamazed)

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volatile-vixn — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:25:45 -0400

The most adorable, hilarious book promotion ever.

volatile-vixn — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:19:06 -0400

The most adorable, hilarious book promotion ever.

Denise Levertov, "Keeping Track"

volatile-vixn — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:35:28 -0400

sharingpoetry:

Between chores—
hulling strawberries,
answering letters—
or between poems,

returning to the mirror
to see if I’m there.

(submitted by communicatedtodeath)

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will..."

volatile-vixn — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:11:50 -0400

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

-
Ernest Hemingway

(via huntedandgathered)

"‎Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir,..."

volatile-vixn — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:30:19 -0400

“‎Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."

volatile-vixn — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:05:24 -0400

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

- Jack Kerouac (via saddest-summer)

ianbrooks: Quotable Arts by Evan Robertson / Obvious State High...

volatile-vixn — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:24:29 -0400

ianbrooks:

Quotable Arts by Evan Robertson / Obvious State

High quality giclée prints available at etsy. Distilling literary quotes from a handful of the masters down to a single graphic representation, Evan captures the raw concept of the sentence and makes it damn purty to look at as well.

(via: fab)

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volatile-vixn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:35:43 -0400

Charles Bukowski, "cause and effect"

volatile-vixn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:17:10 -0400

sharingpoetry:

the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them

(submitted by straightawaydangerous)

not-your-little-anything: Do you ever read a book and then you finish it and you just sit there and...

volatile-vixn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:16:11 -0400

not-your-little-anything:

Do you ever read a book and then you finish it and you just sit there and think for a while because this book has changed your entire life and you go about the rest of the day but you can’t stop thinking about that one book? And you almost feel enlightened and your like “Oh shit. This is what Buddha must have felt like under that tree.” And nobody knows it but you have just undergone emotional trauma and also major life lessons at the hands of a paperback?

theparisreview: Listen to William Faulkner read his Nobel Prize...

volatile-vixn — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 02:14:37 -0400

theparisreview:

Listen to William Faulkner read his Nobel Prize Speech.

(Source: Open Culture)