February 2012
avdunstar: There is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
“The only real edginess is honesty.”
– Marc Maron
(via nedhepburn)
“Who will put flowers on a flower’s grave?”
– Tom Waits (via nocternity)
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief...”
– Saint Bartholomew (via lucifelle)
“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson (via absea)
“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one...”
– Nikki Giovanni (via katelizabeth)
“Humility follows close upon the heels of courage. This may seem strange, but in...”
– Harry Scholefield, The Task of Peace: Lenten Manual for 1955 (Unitarian Universalist, minister)
“So few things we need to know.
And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow...”
– Robert Hass, from “Against Botticelli” (via proustitute)
“You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing...”
– Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (via 1beauty)
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night (via mirroir)
“Naming and counting are the two most basic behaviors in our divided brains....”
– How to Name Things (via azspot)
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (source: npr)
This is one of the most lovely and comforting things I’ve ever read or heard about death and grieving, and I have been to more funerals than I can remember.
(via anachronistique)
thebronzemedal:
So by now we’ve all heard that Mitt Romney is “not concerned about the very poor.” I’d like someone to illustrate this sentiment in a picture book, Green Eggs & Ham style:
“Are you concerned about them while in your fancy jet? Are you concerned about them while making a $10,000 bet?”
“I am not concerned about them while in my fancy jet. I am not concerned about them while...
