November 2010
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White-Eyes
by Mary Oliver
In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees where the wind-bird
with its white eyes shoves and pushes among the branches. Like any of us
he wants to go to sleep, but he’s restless— he has an idea, and slowly it unfolds
from under his beating wings as long as he stays awake But his big, round...
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“What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question; one that tended...”
– To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
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Housing Shortage
by Naomi Replansky
I tried to live small. I took a narrow bed. I held my elbows to my sides. I tried to step carefully And to think softly And to breathe shallowly In my portion of air And to disturb no one. But see how I spread out and I cannot help it. I take to myself more and more, and I take nothing That I do not need, but my needs grow like weeds, All over and invading; I clutter this place...
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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is...”
– House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds – but I think of...”
– The People of Paper by Salvador Plascencia
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Lovely, little messages!
soverypretty: What a lovely tumblr. I’m so happy to find (and follow) you! :) Gwyn
easilyflabbergasted: Your tumblr, is the most wondrous thing of life.
Thank you, thank you kindly. x
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if i love you
by e e cummings
if i love You (thickness means worlds inhabited by roamingly stern bright faeries if you love me) distance is mind carefully luminous with innumerable gnomes Of complete dream if we love each (shyly) other, what clouds do or Silently Flowers resembles beauty less than our breathing
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“Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each...”
– Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
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“You know I dreamed about you
for 29 years
before I saw you.”
– The National (via airplanesandrunways)
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Tangent
by Eugène Guillevic (translated by Richard Sieburt)
I will only touch you once. / And it will only be in passing. // No use calling me back, / No use reminding. // You will have plenty of time / To rehearse and remember / This moment, // To convince yourself / We’ll never part
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“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton, On Love (via justbesplendid)
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To a Friend (sonnet)
by Amy Lawrence Lowell
I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas how few There are who...
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“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on...”
– Mary Manin Morrissey
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Tonight I Can Write
by Pablo Neruda (translated by W.S. Merwin)
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and...
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“There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far,...”
– David Bowie (from ‘Nature Boy’, original by Nat King Cole thanks) 