January 2012
100 posts
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next...”
– T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
“A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year...”
– Edgar Guest
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the...”
– Hal Borland
December 2011
71 posts
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the last sunset of 2011 is happening right off the back of my porch where i’m snuggled in blankets and listening to mumford. it’s chilly but beautiful and this is the way i choose to spend the last day of the year.
i feel like i'm on top of the world
the clarinet world at least….
“I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I...”
– Marguerite Duras (via ignify)
“My firefly heart is still right there in your glass jar.”
– andrea gibson (via vavin)
i am happy for the ink stains on my fingertips
and i am happy for music that reaches the soul
“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho (via misswallflower)
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“— To Love Well
is to place a hand
on another’s chest and know
that the...”
– Ocean Vuong, To Love Well (via grammatolatry)
Two things I learned this year:
wordsandfeathers:
Things can get worse.
Things can also get better.
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
This. All of it.
(via artislovely)
That awkward moment when you fall in love with a...
except this happens a lot and it’s more heartbreaking than awkward and i never really find anything that compares </3
i didn't get any books
i’m creying. my heart is breaking. I didn’t get any books for Christmas :’( :’(
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“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you...”
– Epicurus (via live-to-the-point-of-tears) (via travels-with-charley) (via nogreatillusion) (via thiswillhurt)
“In your hopelessness is the only hope…and in your tremendous helplessness...”
– Osho (via tylerknott)
December Emotions
nostalgia n. The nebulous feeling that visits you at 2am, dancing around in the shadows of your mind, effortlessly escaping your attempt at describing it well and good; it lingers – in the pauses between breaths, the crevices between light and dark, the grey area dividing heart and mind – and sets up residence in your soul, tattooing itself onto the inside of your eyelids so it never leaves you...
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Can i just take up a minute amount of internet...
Fuck you.
I hate you.
That is all.
“If time takes me (and time will take me), I will come back as a single feather....”
– I Wrote This For You: The Slipstream We’re Caught In (via iwtfy-)
poetrytothestars:
It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells. To think, this year I will grow into a body you never will have touched. Brett Elizabeth Jenkins
“All life is just a progression toward, and a regression from, one phrase—‘I love...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Offshore Pirate” (via styleandsubstance) (via thiswillhurt)
“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”
– Nicole Krauss (via sadnesses) (via thiswillhurt)