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January 2011

“Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
That’s not an answer.
There isn’t any answer.
How long hasn’t there been any answer?
As long as I can remember.
And how long have you written?
As long as I can remember.
I mean poetry.
So do I.”
—E. E. Cummings, “Forward to an Exhibit: II” (1945)
Jan 31, 201156 notes
#E. E. Cummings #Cummings #quotes #poetry #lit
Jan 31, 201112 notes
#photography #wonderful double-exposure
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.” —Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Jan 31, 2011390 notes
#melancholy notes #Evelyn Waugh #Brideshead Revisited #Evelyn Waugh #quotes #lit
Jan 31, 20117 notes
#photography
A question...

Thank you dontclick for your kind feedback (I accidentally deleted your message)! You asked me for a list of people I follow… Well, I meant to figure out how to post the whole list of people who I follow for a while and I hope this reduced list will suffice for now: lydianea, vaporeuse, aubade, umnie, juilett14, suchamajesty, autumnalhymn, beingabletofly, abrokensomething, kaleidoscopedreams, seaembraces, enchanting, girlmeetsdream, yoursummerheart, yourgreatauntmary, wearebasiclight, saturnrising, psychexperimentinglove, puslebit, khayyam, weightofallthings, uber-alles, wearethesky, indigocolored, startlightandfurther, crashinglybeautiful, rememo, lightdrops, invisiblestories, thealphabetsoup, floralmelodies, leitmotif, febia, nysheart, transiency, weissewiese, betwixt-and-between … and quite a few more that I should probably list (oh, I don’t like this)!! I must say that I follow them all for different reasons and some of these blogs are not necessarily reflecting my taste but they are all wonderful and unique. And I can definitely say that those with whom I have conversed are extremely lovely people. :)

Jan 31, 201113 notes
#some personal notes
Jan 31, 20113 notes
I Am Running Into a New Year

by Lucille Clifton

i am running into a new year
and the old years blow back
like a wind
that i catch in my hair
like strong fingers like
all my old promises and
it will be hard to let go
of what i said to myself
about myself
when i was sixteen and
twenty-six and thirty-six
even thirty-six but
i am running into a new year
and i beg what i love and
i leave to forgive me

from Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

Jan 30, 2011104 notes
#thoughts that breathe #Lucille Clifton #I Am Running Into a New Year #poetry #lit
Jan 30, 201123 notes
#photography #the sea the sea
8 Mm Yann Tiersen

8Mm by Yann Tiersen

Jan 30, 201150 notes
#we are the music makers #Yann Tiersen #8Mm #Tabarly
Jan 30, 2011146 notes
#beautiful light leaks #photography #I thought about birds
“All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs.”
—Pale Fire (excerpt) by Vladimir Nabokov
Jan 30, 2011489 notes
#thoughts that breathe #vladmir nabokov #pale fire #poetry #lit
Jan 30, 201116 notes
#photography
Jan 30, 201112 notes
#photography #the sea the sea
Voices

“Blood is thicker than water”
so they say
so you’ve said
all these years
when I was a child
“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”
so you told me
all these years
When it was Your Hand againstme
and Your Word againstmine
the sound of Your Voice silenced my own
all these years.

*

But the whispers inside me grew
into my own voice
Blood isn’t thicker than water
when diluted with tears
and What doesn’t kill you makes you
smaller.

*

The years have gone by -
I’m still learning to stand up Tall,
and at times voices haunt my body like ghosts.
But love has let me grow so much,
and I can feel the sea living in my veins.

Jan 30, 201118 notes
#thoughts not poetry
“What can be explained is not poetry.” —W.B. Yeats
Jan 29, 2011165 notes
#beautiful minds and thoughts #W.B. Yeats #quotes #on poetry
Jan 29, 20117 notes
#photography #magical light
“Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear. You are someone else, I am still right here.” —Johnny Cash (via uber-alles)
Jan 29, 201133 notes
#we are the music makers #melancholy notes #Johnny Cash #quotes
Jan 29, 201110 notes
#photography
Shape Sophie Hunger

Shape by Sophie Hunger

Shadow boxing, monologue and we dream and we dream and we dream…

Jan 29, 201119 notes
#we are the music makers #Sophie Hunger #Shape
Jan 29, 20115 notes
#photography
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