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"Looks like what drives me crazy Don’t have no effect on you— But I’m gonna keep on..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:28:47 -0400

““Looks like what drives me crazy
Don’t have no effect on you—
But I’m gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.””

- ― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems

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Wed, 15 May 2013 00:16:22 -0400

Robert Rauschenberg’s handwritten draft of a statement on...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:37:04 -0400

Robert Rauschenberg’s handwritten draft of a statement on photography first published in Rauschenberg Photographs, Pantheon Books, New York, 1981. From the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives

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"But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:28:32 -0400

“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via mirroir)

Mahalia Jackson @ Newport Jazz Festival - 1958

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:26:21 -0400

Mahalia Jackson @ Newport Jazz Festival - 1958

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Thu, 09 May 2013 17:47:42 -0400

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 16:02:49 -0400

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis”

Mirrored: The Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroder (1987)

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:34:44 -0400

Mirrored: The Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroder (1987)

"Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits the best and is most becoming?"

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:46:35 -0400

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits the best and is most becoming?”

- Sylvia Plath. (via ziegfeld-girl)

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open..."

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:14:12 -0400

“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.””

- Ernest Hemingway
(via seabois)

From "The Lotos-Eaters"

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:12:44 -0400

Let us alone.

Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will last?
All things are taken from us, and become
Portions and parcels of the dreadful past.
Let us alone. What pleasure can we have
To war with evil? Is there any peace
In ever climbing up the climbing wave?
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence—ripen, fall, and cease:
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.

-A. Tennyson

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Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:20:18 -0500

"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing’s perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist...."

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:17:43 -0500

“One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing’s perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist. The cosmos had taken its first step toward the beautiful place it is today all thanks to irregularity, imperfections and luck of order. So the next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

- Stephen Hawking (via likeafieldmouse)

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:03:26 -0500

“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”

- Michel de Montaigne (via ileu)

Days

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:47:26 -0500

by Philip Larkin

What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question
Brings the priest and doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.

W. H. Auden, draft of “Musée des Beaux Arts”

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:55:05 -0500

W. H. Auden, draft of “Musée des Beaux Arts”

"Never trust a survivor,” my father used to warn me, “until you find out what he did to stay alive."

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:56:58 -0500

““Never trust a survivor,” my father used to warn me, “until you find out what he did to stay alive.””

- Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard (via vonnegutphile)

"I like people too much or not at all."

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:01:44 -0500

“I like people too much or not at all.”

- Sylvia Plath (via likeafieldmouse)

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