April 2011
55 posts
“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable....”
– Possession, A.S. Byatt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor...”
– Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones, 2011)
“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor...”
– Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones, 2011)
4 tags
“You are tired,
(I think)
Of the always puzzle of living and doing;
And so am...”
– E. E. Cummings
7 tags
“Often, when bored, the sailors of the crew
Trap albatross, the great birds of...”
– Charles Baudelaire (trans. James McGowan)
6 tags
“Oh Attic Shape! Fair attitude! with brede
Of marble men and maidens...”
– John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath (via elanoravira)
3 tags
“I want to get lost to find myself. I want to wander cobbled streets in places...”
“Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via austinoliver)
“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient...”
– Sappho (via twenty4mixtapes)
1 tag
4 tags
“‘The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down...”
– DH Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3 tags
“Godlike the man who
sits at her side, who
watches and catches
that...”
– Catullus, 51 (based on fragments of Sappho)
“This world is but a single
dewdrop, set
Trembling upon a stem; and...”
– Issa (trans. Stewart) Early Tokugawa period, The Autumn Cricket (insanity play of revenge)
“You made me feel more worthless than he ever did.”
