May 2013
116 posts
“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
– (via thatkindofwoman)
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as...”
– Brian Eno (via jessiethatcher)
I could reblog/post this every day as a constant reminder.
(via notational)
And I’m sticking it up here for people who define the “good” in Make good art in ways that I definitely didn’t intend… (via neil-gaiman)
“Lists of books we re-read and books we can’t finish tell more about us than...”
– Russell Banks (via larmoyante)
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more...”
– Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (via larmoyante)
“First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is:...”
– Henri Nouwen Thank you Eric for sharing this. (via sistersemperviren)
“I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a...”
– Frida Kahlo, from an unsent letter to Diego Rivera (via chromefoam)
“I am not happy. I am not unhappy. I am frozen somewhere in the middle that is so...”
– Samantha Schutz, I Don’t Want to be Crazy (via tragic-eyes)
Fuck Yeah, Poetry!: "Who Said it Was Simple?"... →
punch-in-the-face-poetry:
There are so many roots to the tree of anger that sometimes the branches shatter before they bear.
Sitting in Nedicks the women rally before they march discussing the problematic girls they hire to make them free. An almost white counterman passes a…
“This is a poem about rain,
not you,
so you will forgive me
if I only refer to...”
– C.S. Bhagya, “On Rain” (via larmoyante)
“Laurie Penny’s Saudade
There are more of us than you think, kicking off our...”
– Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)
So good. (via neil-gaiman)
"A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention," Yehuda...
punch-in-the-face-poetry:
They amputated Your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantled us Each from the other. As far as I’m concerned They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good And loving invention. An aeroplane made from a man and wife. Wings and everything. We hovered a little above the earth.
We even...
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
– John Steinbeck (via creaturing)
"bad milk," Warsan Shire
warsanshire:
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since you moved out
i have not returned to the apartment.
i sleep in my old bedroom
in the house i outgrew the moment
you flexed your fingers inside of me.
my mother and her henna fingered friends
move out my belongings
like handfuls of water
from a sinking boat.
the entire city tastes of your
cowardly mouth.
i pray like a photograph left out in the sun
bent at the...
“‘Am I weird?’
‘Yeah. But so what? Everybody’s weird.’”
– Stephen King, Different Seasons (via larmoyante)
“So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though...”
– David Marusek (via larmoyante)
“I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to...”
– Henry Rollins, Smile, You’re Traveling (Black Coffee Blues Pt. 3)
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty (via larmoyante)
Larmoyante: Mantra to Overcome Depression →
larmoyante:
Vitamin D. Sunlight. Go outside. Get a good night
of sleep. Not too good.
Not shades drawn forever good. Not like you used to. Open the windows. Buy more houseplants. Breathe. Meditate. (One day, you will no longer be afraid of being alone with your thoughts.) Exercise. Actually exercise
thepensivebrony:
“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
– Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption (via larmoyante)
“I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know...”
– Charles de Lint, Memory and Dream (via larmoyante)
