A Collection

[morepeachyogurt]

chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’

[hereiswhatremains]

"My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?"

— The Book of Disquiest by Fernando Pessoa via @luthienne

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[written-w0rd]

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

[quotespile]

“Luck, like life itself, is no certain thing, but a loveliness which may alight upon my shoulder but more often seems to be some unknown brilliant quantity in motion.”

— William T. Vollmann, The Dying Grass

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of One Significant Landscape", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[soracities]

Emily Skaja, from "I Liked Myself Better as an Exquisite Skeleton", pub. The Offing [ID'd]

[lunamonchtuna]

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

[quotespile]

“Ought one to surrender to authority even if one believed that that authority was wrong? If the answer was yes, then I knew that I would always be wrong, because I could never do it. Then how could one live in a world in which one’s mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? There were no answers.”

— Richard Wright, Black Boy

[havingapoemwithyou]

i have just said by Mary Oliver

[philosophybits]

“Also characteristic of the rational soul: Affection for its neighbors. Truthfulness. Humility. Not to place anything above itself.”

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (11.1)

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

– Audrey Hepburn

[quotespile]

“Why are you not smarter? It’s only the rich who can’t afford to be smart. They’re compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They have to protect their belongings. No one is meaner than the rich. Trust me. But they have to follow the rules of their shitty civilised world. They declare war, they have honour, and they can’t leave. But you two. We three. We’re free.”

— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Seduction theory”

[Text ID: “so let it be known when I want something I want more of it than usually exists.”]

[quotespile]

“It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it’s all going to end.”

— Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

[written-w0rd]

Franz Kafka

[jordanbolton]

To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton