February 2011
“It seems that I must bid the Muse go pack,
Choose Plato and Plotinus for a...”
– Yeats. The Tower
January 2011
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“sew the ribbon round your throat and coat your mouth with honey”
– Honeymoon
Bombadil
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hiiiistacie:
i just love them :3
“..and my roommates are singing again”
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dear bryn mawr
enough with the emails telling us its snowing but you’re handling it
I just walked from rhoads to taylor and you clearly aren’t
snow means...
I got to go on tumblr again
and I’ll finish a whole cup of coffee
“Does it seem fatuous to say
That I couldn’t stop smiling?
With the pains...”
– Margaret Newlin
Thaaaank you!
summersanginme:
“I’m fascinated by the way the contemporary world has constructed this manic pixie dream girl (to use a term coined by Nathan Rabin) who flutters into the lives of men and changes them forever with her moodiness and mystery. This idea has become the kind of female Edward Cullen, and I am of course drawn to it myself but also really troubled by it, because I think it’s just a new...
Thaaaank you!
summersanginme:
“I’m fascinated by the way the contemporary world has constructed this manic pixie dream girl (to use a term coined by Nathan Rabin) who flutters into the lives of men and changes them forever with her moodiness and mystery. This idea has become the kind of female Edward Cullen, and I am of course drawn to it myself but also really troubled by it, because I think it’s just a new...
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A River of Tangled String: Letter to Virginia... →
ariveroftangledstring:
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that;…
A River of Tangled String: Letter to Virginia... →
ariveroftangledstring:
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that;…
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“(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens;
I carry them, men and women—I...”
– Walt Whitman - Song of the Open Road from Leaves Of Grass (via literarylovers)
Extreme Geekitude: French words with no English... →
carouselinparis:
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage…
Extreme Geekitude: French words with no English... →
carouselinparis:
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage…
“It’s emotional sustenance I need from you”
– My mother…
“It’s emotional sustenance I need from you”
– My mother…
Hot chocolate!!! →
Hot chocolate!!! →
My theoretical problems with this aside...it'd be... →
My theoretical problems with this aside...it'd be... →
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by...”
– James Dickey (via deadwriters)
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by...”
– James Dickey (via deadwriters)
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“how do you like me n-o-w?
how do you like me n—o-o-o-w?”
– My mom singing down the hallway at 9 am
I haven't been able to sit through a movie
without knowing the end in years. At least five years. This has become something of a running joke in my family Why, my sister will ask if I ask for a plot hint, didn’t you look it up in wikipedia?
If wikipedia hadn’t been invented and hadn’t decided that it was alright to spoil the end middle and beginning of almost every movie filmed I probably would have stopped watching...
I need to stop
submerging my phone in liquids
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via twice1day)
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anaïs Nin (via twice1day)
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“A week ago I bought a rifle, I went to the store - I bought a rifle! I was...”
– Woody Allen Hannah and her Sisters
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