Word By Word

"Have you ever heard the earth breathe?" -Kate Chopin

[sweetgum-tree]

“I would like to tell her, Love is enough, I would like to say, Find shelter in another skin. I would like to say, Dance and be happy. Instead I will say in my crone’s voice, Be ruthless when you have to, tell the truth when you can, when you can see it.”

— Margaret Atwood, from Solstice Poem in “Selected Poems II: 1976-1986″

[pneumosity]

“But I have infinite tenderness for you. I always will. My whole life.”

— Blue Is The Warmest Color (via naturaekos)

[thestateonmtv]

The inherent embarrassment in desiring anything

[visual-poetry]

by tim etchells (+)

[antigonick]

“Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.”

— Emily Dickinson, excerpt of “Heart We Will Forget Him”, in her Complete Poems

[visual-poetry]

»please do not touch the work of art« by raqs media collective

[julieterbang]

[topcat77]

Mark Rothko

Untitled (Blue), 1969

[themidwesternprepster-deactivat]

My goal in life is to own an original Rothko.

[trainthief]

Literally just romanticize your own life. What’s stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things. 

[sakuhra]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I learned to know the love of bare November days,”

— Robert Frost, from The Complete Poems; “My November Guest,”

[last-picture-show]

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Piergiorgio Branzi :: Flamenco Dancer at Sacromonte, 1956 / more [+] by this photographer

[quotemadness]

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh (via quotemadness)

[alonesomes]

“Do you take pride in the hurt? Does it make you feel large and tragic?”

— John Steinbeck  (via aryasnow)

[larmoyante]

“Everything, the moaning of the wind, the humming of autumn insects, added to the sadness.”

— Murasaki Shikibu, Tale of Genji

[architecturejunkie]

[kafk-a]

Mary Oliver