April 2010
“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
– Walker Evans (via bigfun) (via koeur)
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
– Steven Wright (via koeur)
fuckyeahsweetmusic:
Awful / Hole
They know...
missworld:
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Hole - Doll Parts
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Adorable,eh?
fuckyeahrdj:
dierad:
LOVE THIS!
The Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton
For my Mother, born March 1902, died March 1959 and my Father, born February 1900, died June 1959 Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I am tired of being brave. We drive to the Cape. I cultivate myself where the sun gutters from the sky, where the sea swings in like an iron gate and we touch. In...
Sylvia's Death by Anne Sexton
For Sylvia Plath
O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering loose in a tiny playroom, with your mouth into the sheet, into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer, (Sylvia, Sylvia where did you go after you wrote me from Devonshire about rasing potatoes and keeping bees?) what did you stand by, just how did you lie down into? Thief — how did...
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that...”
– Virginia Woolf, from A Room of One’s Own (via deadwriters)
March 2010
“The hard air was still sulphurous, but they were both used to it. Round the near...”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
I just really love this description
“There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your...”
– Dostoevsky (via dryswallow) (via dostoyevsky)
“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual...”
– Anna Quindlen, Reading Has a Strong Future, in Newsweek. (via thebronzemedal) (via paperbackgirl)
Two Deathdays For the Price of One!
deadwriters:
Today we would like to tip our hats to both Charlotte Brontë and John Donne! Though these two writers come from different time periods and approached their craft quite differently, they share perhaps the most intimate thing two people can share - their deathday!
Donne died on this day in 1631 of stomach cancer and remains one of the...
“Vaguely she knew herself that she was going to pieces in some way. Vaguely she...”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: a hybrid novel by Alberto... →
thisismydancecard:
A hybrid novel, according to Alberto Hernández, can be seen as a hybrid image-text novel, not a children’s book, graphic novel/comic or gift book, but a book where written text and graphic devices such as illustration, photography, information graphics or typographic treatments may interject in order to hold a readers’ interest.
About.com: Emily Dickinson →
This is a look at the mysterious and unforgettable life of Emily Dickinson.
reveillerlimagination asked: Have you seen Amelie? I was watching it today with mum and wondered if you had seen it before. If you have, then did you enjoy it? Audrey is also wonderful in A Very Long Engagement.
22 Years Ago Today Toni Morrisson's "Beloved" Won... →
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Girl ~ Tori...
“Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more...”
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“The bad thing about words is that they make us feel as if we were illuminated...”
– Paulo Coelho (via writerspad)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's... →
ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll CHAPTER I (CONTD) Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. `Dinah’ll miss me very much to-night, I should think!’ (Dinah was the cat.) `I hope they’ll remember her saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah my…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Alice's... →
Lewis Carroll CHAPTER I Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a…
a goldmine of Sylvia Plath pictures →
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Amazing photographs that I had never seen before! So glad I found this!
He took a polaroid every day, until the day he... →
thisismydancecard:
More here. Thank you, Iso.
This story haunts me. I read about it a month or so ago and I’ve never forgotten it.
“They were so intimate, and utterly out of touch.”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
“It was as if the whole of his being were in his stories.”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Really getting into this story!
Barefoot by Anne Sexton
Loving me with my shows off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. Intricate nubs, my toes. No longer bound. And what’s more, see toenails and all ten stages, root by root. All spirited and wild, this little piggy went to market and this little piggy stayed. Long brown legs and long brown toes. Further up, my...
“If the truth must be told, he was just a little bit frightened of middle-and...”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Sounds like some right-wing extremists in our country right now!
“Both Hilda and Constance had had their tentative love-affairs by the time they...”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
“He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious...”
– from Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Read the entire novel here
“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn’t about finding someone...”
– Tempt Me at Twilight, Lisa Kleypas (via thisismydancecard)
Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
It is no night to drown in: A full moon, river lapsing Black beneath bland mirror-sheen, The blue water-mists dropping Scrim after scrim like fishnets Though fishermen are sleeping, The massive castle turrets Doubling themselves in a glass All stillness. Yet these shapes float Up toward me, troubling the face Of quiet. From the nadir They rise, their limbs ponderous With richness, hair heavier...
Spit that shit out, man!
fuckyeahrdj:
dierad:
TROPIC THUNDER IS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones...”
– Hart Crane (via deadwriters)
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that...”
– - Pablo Picasso
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“In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am
I...”
– from Mark Strand’s “Keeping Things Whole” (via 1970fur) (via leprintemps) (via philomel) (via thegardengirl) (via holy-honey) (via dreaminginthedeepsouth)
Forgotten Bookmarks →
I cannot believe this website exists. It is about the things that people find in used books. I’ve always been fascinated by this subject and have collected the different little trinkets that I’ve discovered in my secondhand books. You wouldn’t believe what some people press between the pages of a book; maybe it’s their attempt at not being forgotten.
webleed-stardust asked: I have a question about the D.H. Lawrence novel you posted earlier, what war is taking place in the setting of the novel?
