i am not a monocot

"I must be myself. I will not hide my tastes or aversions." Ralph Waldo Emerson just a gal that really likes bears, books, and art history

[eatmorelilies-blog]

So Much Stubborn Hope by eatmorelilies.

1. Tears Over Beers - Modern Baseball 2. If It’s The Beaches - The Avett Brothers 3. The King of Carrot Flowers Part One - Neutral Milk Hotel 4. Cynicism - Nana Grizol  5. Above the Clouds of Pompeii - Bear’s Den 6. The World At Large - Modest Mouse 7. Play Crack The Sky - Brand New      8. Shadows - Past Life

[wordsnquotes]

I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.

Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice  (via wordsnquotes)

[lithub]

“Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath, born today in 1932

[bears--bears--bears]

Siesta by Olga Gladysheva

[wnq-writers]

What a joy it is. To exist at all, I mean. What a lovely thought.

Nicholas Browne,

Haiku 60 of 365

(via wnq-writers)

[absolutedoge]

[taemsgirl]

[ichimatsumatsunoo-deactivated20]

@jyushi-the-memer

[90sto2000s]

[pitudt]

[larmoyante]

There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942  (via loveage-moondream)

[goalie9415]

[luthienne]

Look, I want to love this world / as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going to get / to be alive / and know it.

Mary Oliver, from Blue Iris (via luthienne)

[loveforallbears]

[wordsnquotes]

Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver, West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems (via wordsnquotes)

[human-oftheyear]

Someone who got the everloving shit sabotaged out of them on Cutthroat Kitchen: What I've made for you today is kind of a rustic, deconstructed...

[theliteraryjournals]

‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’

Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (via theliteraryjournals)

[goldenlightsfan-blog]

The Smiths