March 2012
122 posts
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“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
– Mark Slouka (via carouselinparis)
February 2012
116 posts
icelandiclanguage:
The Icelandic word skúffuskáld means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
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chickens wearing sweaters →
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“Kafka (or was it Rilke) said that poetry was the axe that breaks the frozen...”
– Richard Siken (via swallowingmatches)
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via theninthofjanuary)
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At dinner my mom asked me, like really truly asked me, how therapy was going, because it’s been almost a year and she thinks that I still look sad. And we talked for at least 45 minutes and she told me that she just wants me to be happy and that she wants me to open up to her because I can tell her things and she just wants me to be happy and she just wants me to be happy. If you had known...
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What else can you do when you’re sad but eat pretzels and watch hidden camera clips from the Ellen show?
Something’s missing and I know what it is and I can’t fix it and now what?
Drinking champagne because my parents let me and also it is delicious and bubbly.
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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
– Neil Gaiman (via dddeath-and-decay)
Don’t pretend like you’ve never tried to take a picture of yourself smizing
“No one should ask the other
“What were you thinking?”
No one, that is,
who...”
– “After Making Love,” Stephen Dunn (via clavicola)
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You are not And I am not When you keep silly secrets hidden under the black of your sheets and the red of your cheeks
Or the pale, pale glow that kept you feeling distant that summer in Long Island.
You are just a wall and that wall is just a gimmick that soaks in a dash of warm water
From the...
EVERYTHING HURTS
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“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting...”
– “Like This,” Rumi (via clavicola)
How classy would it be if someone came over for dinner and a glass of wine? So classy.
when you ask me if you can ask me a question and then ask a stupid question IT IS NOT OK
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Give a fuck.
rupertanderson:
Why does the internet so often celebrate people not giving a fuck? I want people to give a fuck. Humanity needs people to give a fuck. It needs people to find a cause and give as many fucks about it as they can. That’s how greatness is born.
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When summer rolls around I’m going to sit on my roof outside my bedroom window because it’s the nicest thing in the world.
icelandiclanguage:
The Icelandic word skúffuskáld means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
I am seriously starting to reconsider my future and it is freaking me out beyond belief.
If you had to choose, would you be a squirrel or a mountain goat in your next life?
It really bothers me when people think our school is all about ~calculators~. There are actually some lovely people if you could possibly fathom the idea of giving up your ignorance and complaining about who you go to school with.
clavicola:
During November 1970, forty people were photographed at the instant exactly after the photographer said, “You have a beautiful face.” By Douglas Heubler.
I would really like to do this.
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I think I’m so used to things sucking that I literally don’t know how to handle it when things go right.