June 2011
May 2011
Difference
melancholynotes:
by Anna Kamienska
Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope
(from Astonishments - Selected Poems by Anna Kamienska)
What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it....
– from Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (via melancholynotes)
The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend...
– Jiddu Krishnamurti, The Book of Life (via lysergicacidiethylamide)
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled,
made nothing?
Are you...
– D.H. Lawrence (via lysergicacidiethylamide)
I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really...
– W. S. Merwin (source; via lesmotsjustes)
aperfectcommotion:
“Come to the edge,” he said. They said, “We are afraid.” Come to the edge,” he said. They came. He pushed them…and they flew.”
— Guillaume Apollinaire
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.
– William S. Burroughs (via arsvitaest)
we are amazed…
uselessness is the last form love takes,
so liquid...
– Jorie Graham, from “Underneath (13)” (via proustitute)