May 2012
6 posts
“My primary relationship is with myself – all others are mirrors of it. As I...”
– Shakti Gawain, Reflections in the Light (via humanformat)
“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of...”
– Teju Cole (via humanformat)
“All the good things that have happened to me in the last several years have...”
– Erica Jong, “Blood and Guts: A Woman Writer in the Late Twentieth Century”
April 2012
17 posts
“After I had cut off my hands
and grown new ones
something my former hands had...”
– Denise Levertov, “Intrusion” (via sharingpoetry and refinedhedonism)
W. W. Norton: Why I Am Not A Buddhist →
wwnorton:
I love desire, the state of want and thought of how to get; building a kingdom in a soul requires desire. I love the things I’ve sought- you in your beltless bathrobe, tongues of cash that loll from my billfold- and love what I want: clothes, houses, redemption. Can a new mauve suit equal God? Oh…
“I had a dream, had a drowning dream I was in a river of pain. Only difference is...”
– Natalie Imbruglia, ”City”
“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called...”
– Chris Rock
(via wordsandturds)
madeofglass:
theyoungmachine:
breathsoftruth:
brokenmachine littleteaspoon
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think: I’m not going to make it, I just can’t do it today. I’m too tired, too emotional, too worn out, too run down and feel like a complete and utter miserable wreck. But you laugh inside as you drag your sorry self to the kitchen for some coffee; remembering...
“INTERVIEWER
Wouldn’t you rather be known as a great exponent of literature...”
– 1993 Paris Review interview with Toni Morrison (via mensahdemary)
Specter Collective: Submissions Open for Specter... →
spectercollective:
Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2012
Expected Publication Date: July, 2012
Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Photography
Guest Editors:
Athena Dixon Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Diana Salier Ashley Bethard
We’re pleased to announce Specter’s second Special Issue—simply called…
March 2012
10 posts
“Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in...”
– Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect (via noelduan)
Side B Magazine: Side B Magazine Released... →
sidebmagazine:
The long awaited anthology issue by Side B Magazine is now here - http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/347542
Don’t miss out on the chance to buy our first anthology issue!
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via xxxi-i-mcmxcii)
ETERNALLY CO-SIGNED. I’ve known brilliant insightful people who never finished college, never finished high school, and even some that can’t read/write beyond signing their name. I’ve also known people with PhDs and ivy league degrees who are airheads that are...
February 2012
13 posts
“She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept...”
– William Faulkner
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via misswallflower)
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s...”
– Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
Not gonna lie, I am really into solid analogies / effective literary devices. And this one is good.
(via thefuror)
“The memory of you is what stays up, your body what subsides. Your ghost remains...”
– Édouard Levé, Suicide, trans. Jan Steyn (via proustitute)
January 2012
6 posts
