August 2011
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Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power...
– Groucho Marx (via justbesplendid)
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We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that...
– Virginia Woolf (via cassket)
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Poetry Lesson by Adam Czerniawski
The poet who once wrote “I love you passionately” and later “nife in yr gut”
Now writes “Your face already illegible like a worn stone”
Critics track the formal changes and note the shift in style and expression
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And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special,...
– The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (via thechocolatebrigade)
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I’m so tired of trying to say things to people and having them not listen, and...
– Fiona Apple (via justwondrful)
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Being a somewhat dark person myself, I fell in love with the idea that the...
– Laurie Anderson, Notes on Melville’s Moby Dick (via loveyourchaos)
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your slightest look will easily unclose me
though i have closed myself as...
– e.e. cummings (via goregasms)
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Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...
– Homer, The Iliad (via letsgobananas)
goodpoetry:
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again.
Frank O’Hara
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