i believe it was June when i needed blue.

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"What was missing in me, Rilke knew."

Wed, 16 May 2012 23:06:51 +0800

“What was missing in me, Rilke knew.”

- Anne Michaels, from “Modersohn — Becker”, in Miner’s Pond (via growing-orbits)

XIVAnd what did the rubies saystanding before the juice of pomegranates?Why doesn’t Thursday...

Wed, 16 May 2012 22:52:57 +0800

XIV
And what did the rubies say
standing before the juice of pomegranates?

Why doesn’t Thursday talk itself
into coming after Friday?

Who shouted with glee
when the color blue was born?

Why does the earth grieve
when the violets appear?
— Pablo Neruda, Book of Questions

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Sun, 06 May 2012 03:53:40 +0800

"Everything’s already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:12:00 +0800

““Everything’s already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.””

- André Gide

"She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:11:33 +0800

“She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.”

- Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

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Tue, 01 May 2012 16:19:01 +0800

nitsirknerual: Hans Zimmer- Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants...

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:40:49 +0800

nitsirknerual: Hans Zimmer- Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants Mix)

" “It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.” "

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:31:12 +0800

“” “It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.” “”

- Wallace Stevens, American Modernist poet (1879-1955), cited in David Madden, A primer of the novel, Scarecrow Press, 1980, p. 192. (via amiquote)

"In general, females were buried with a wider variety and larger quantity of artifacts than males,..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:27:00 +0800

“In general, females were buried with a wider variety and larger quantity of artifacts than males, and seven female graves contained iron swords or daggers, bronze arrowheads, and whetstones to sharpen the weapons. Some scholars have argued that weapons found in female burials served a purely ritual purpose, but the bones tell a different story. The bowed leg bones of one 13- or 14-year-old girl attest a life on horseback, and a bent arrowhead found in the body cavity of another woman suggested that she had been killed in battle. The Pokrovka women cannot have been the Amazons of Greek myth- who were said to have lived far to the west- but they may have been one of many similar nomadic tribes who occupied the Eurasian steppes in the Early Iron Age.”

- Description of the Sarmatian burial mounds at Pokrovka, excavated by Russian and American archaeologists in 1992-95 (via coolchicksfromhistory)

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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:18:13 +0800

"We have sipped coffee together. His hands are beautiful."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:47:38 +0800

“We have sipped coffee together.
His hands are beautiful.”

- Simon Van Booy, “The Still but Falling World” (via thuntress)

"Something in each of us is waiting to see if we can survive, severed."

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:47:06 +0800

“Something in each of us is waiting
to see if we can survive,
severed.”

- Denise Levertov, from “Divorcing” (via growing-orbits)

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Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:44:13 +0800

this-charming-libertine: Oasis - Waiting For The Rapture (Alt...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:43:00 +0800

this-charming-libertine: Oasis - Waiting For The Rapture (Alt Version #2)

"When the image is new, the world is new."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:38:31 +0800

““When the image is new, the world is new.””

- Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space: The Classic Look at How We Experience Intimate Places

"What is thingness?” La Maga asked. “Thingness is that unpleasant feeling that where our presumption..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:30:00 +0800

““What is thingness?” La Maga asked.
“Thingness is that unpleasant feeling that where our presumption ends our punishment begins. I’m sorry I have to use abstract and almost allegorical language, but I mean that Oliveira is pathologically sensitive to the pressure of what is around him, the world he lives in, his fate, to speak kindly. In a word he can’t stand his surroundings. More briefly, he has a world-ache.””

- Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

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