March 2012
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apoetreflects:
Six Lines for Louise Bogan
All that has tamed me I have learned to love and lost that wildness that was once beloved.
All that was loved I’ve learned to tame and lost the beloved that once was wild.
All that is wild is tamed by love— and the beloved (wildness) that once was loved.
—Michael Collier, “Six Lines for Louise Bogan” in Poetry (vol. CC...
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So I have been thinking that I need: cities, coffee, more time. I need better education, more self confidence, new dresses. I need to go home, I need a nicer apartment, I need a safer town. I need Japanese food, I need books, I need you.
It turns out all I need is to get better.
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“I’m something that I used to be. I’m never where I feel I am, and if I seek...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, (via boringparties)
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e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled,...
sharingpoetry:
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near
your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as fingers, you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens (touching skilfully,mysteriously)her...
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brain-food:
“Doctor Who On Holiday” — Green Day...
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“Dear Sir:
I like words. I like fat buttery words, such as ooze, turpitude,...”
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My new favorite job application letter, from 1934. He ended up winning an Oscar for screenwriting!
(via Letters of Note)
We like words too.
(via good)
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“Obama is the son of a white mother and a black father, a marriage that remains...”
– Poll: Obama’s a Muslim to many GOP voters in Alabama, Mississippi
I’m sorry, 29% of GOP voters in Mississippi and 21% in Alabama believe interracial marriage should be illegal? What century is this? (via mohandasgandhi)
And this is why I really don’t think USA should be going around...
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Watchlonglivethequeen:
The Real Housewives of Disney
seriously can’t get over this video
New favourite thang.
Santorum backs nullifying existing gay marriages →
wilwheaton:
There are 18,000 married gay and lesbian couples in California and at least 131,000 nationwide according to the 2010 census, conducted before New York state legalized same-sex marriage in July.
Rick Santorum says he’ll try to unmarry all of them if he’s elected president.
Does someone need to remind Santorum that he’s running for President, and not Mullah In Chief for the...
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