The Pale Cast of Thought

And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

[weltenwellen]

“Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.”

— Richard Siken, Editors Page: The Long and the Short of It

[weltenwellen]

Joanna Klink, from “On Diminishment”, The Nightfields

[luthienne]

James Baldwin, from Another Country [ID'd]

[soracities]

Jeremy Radin, from "Lazar Wolf the Butcher" (poem written during staging of Fiddler on the Roof at Paper Mill Playhouse, shared on his IG page) [ID'd]

[metamorphesque]

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

[virginiewoolf]

Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth?”

- Albert Camus, The Fall

[mikeyheath-deactivated20170123]

[keremelcream]

Lang Leav

[wedarkacademia]

― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

[nevver]

Continental, Alex Mitchell

[artandchocolate]

Mahmoud Darwish - “Memory for Forgetfulness” 

[quotemadness]

“Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.”

— Joseph Sugarman

[moviesludge]

[flowerytale]

Susan Sontag, from “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963″

[metamorphesque]

—  Richard Siken, Boot Theory

[text ID: A man takes his sadness and /  throws it away / but then he’s still left with his / hands.]

[metamorphesque]

― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

[text ID: In what disorder we lived, how many fragments of ourselves were scattered, as if to live were to explode into splinters.]

[aridante]

Jonny Bolduc, Ending