put your face away, billy

memoryslandscape: “Lately her mournful spirituality had provoked in me the most primitive impulses...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:23:06 -0700

“Lately her mournful spirituality had provoked in me the most primitive impulses … My heart’s desire was that she sit on my lap in the yellow muscadine sunlight.”

— Walker Percy, from Love in the Ruins (Ivy Books, 1971)

“He felt himself caught up in her look, held there before the judgment seat of her eyes.”— Flannery...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:49:27 -0700

“He felt himself caught up in her look, held there before the judgment seat of her eyes.”

— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

yesterdaysprint: Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 4, 1897

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:48:21 -0700

yesterdaysprint:

Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 4, 1897

quotemadness: “You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.” — Amie Kaufman

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:37:46 -0700

quotemadness:

“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.”

— Amie Kaufman

Photo

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:51:55 -0700

merulae: “Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr’s...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:17:31 -0700

merulae:

“Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr’s limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential.”

— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

godswollen:from Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:06:07 -0700

godswollen:

from Representations of Female Suicide by Drowning in Victorian Culture by Valerie Meessen

quotemadness: “I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:20:24 -0700

quotemadness:

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

— Warsan Shire

mothersofmyheart: Printing this out and sticking it next to my...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:34:55 -0700

mothersofmyheart:

Printing this out and sticking it next to my bed was the best decision I’ve made all week.

tinyrosegrl: soft day (ig: tinyrosegrl)

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:49:16 -0700

tinyrosegrl:

soft day
(ig: tinyrosegrl)

ludicrousities: enhanced

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:03:11 -0700

ludicrousities:

enhanced

objectsource: “Mental strength is built through resistance to the unnecessary. Today’s shortage of...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:45:57 -0700

objectsource:

“Mental strength is built through resistance to the unnecessary. Today’s shortage of shortages turns people into flighty and insatiable creatures whose incessant quest for wish fulfilment distracts them from anything of substance.”

— Rem Koolhaas, Town Vs. Country With Rem Koolhaas, Interview with Sven Michaelsen for SSENSE

lifeinpoetry: “she… longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:17:53 -0700

lifeinpoetry:

“she… longs to run herself aground in a sad secret death. Is it a god inside you, girl?”

— Euripides, from Hippolytos, Grief Lessons: Four Plays tr. Anne Carson

warmhealer:Happy Bloomsday – this isn’t Ulysses but my friend’s...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:31:57 -0700

warmhealer:

Happy Bloomsday – this isn’t Ulysses but my friend’s amazing copy of my next favourite, Finnegans Wake.

Photo

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:46:04 -0700

arthoesunshine:anyway i wish the ceilings were always high and the sun always glimmered outside and...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:14:57 -0700

arthoesunshine:

anyway i wish the ceilings were always high and the sun always glimmered outside and windows were always big and imposing and draped in heavy curtains. i wish i had a bust of shakespeare on my desk and tons of old books (already annotated by a foreign hand) and i wish my father was a professor and started teaching me etymology as soon as i could read and that we had a compost pile among our garden of teeming weeds and overgrown flowers. i wish i could bleed out on an ancient greek battlefield. i wish i had enough time to watch old movies all the way through and to devote isolated days to wandering through forests and crafting picnic baskets and reading sappho and dickinson. i wish i was more comfortable with self-revelation. i wish i was born as an old tragedian in thebes or as a naive gay poet during the romanticist era or on the coast of italy or maybe as the angel that visited mary

soracities: “But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:29:05 -0700

soracities:

“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”

— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech. (via halcynth)

lifeinpoetry: Children You were never meant to be humanYou must be the grass You...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 21:43:29 -0700

lifeinpoetry:

Children
You were never meant to be human
You must be the grass
You must grow wildly over the graves
— Roger Reeves, from “Children Listen,” published in Poem-a-Day

russiacore: Anne Sexton / Thomas Eakins

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:57:39 -0700

russiacore:

Anne Sexton / Thomas Eakins

tristealven: “Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.” —...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:12:00 -0700

tristealven:

“Regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea. The sun. An old city. Silence.”

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (via kuanios)