March 2012
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“If I die of vanity, promise me, promise me
If they bury me some place I don’t...”
– Gord Downie, At The Hundredth Meridian (via rupert-the-bear)
fotre asked: Post more of your poetry!
“1972, after a series of prolonged international deliberations among physicists...”
– E. J. Kahn, Jr., “The Leap Second,” Our Far-Flung Correspondents, August 27, 1973 (via newyorker)
February 2012
130 posts
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America (via talkativolive)
glumbird asked: Your blog is lovely.
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus (via philosophy-quotes)
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via prima-volta)
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
– Robert Frost (via bodasdesangre)
failing-now asked: Your writing is always so beautiful
Mugglehead
slangterms:
Mugglehead - [1920s+] - a habitual smoker of marijuana
Related:
Muggle - marijuana cigarette
Muggles - marijuana
There are many print citations from 1926-1970
Source:
Lighter, J.E..Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: Volume II, H-O. Random House, NY 1997
“I was blessed with the inability to grow up and adapt to this society.”
– Craig Junjulas (via athimblefulofbeauty)
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via wordpainting) (via nadia-neptura) (via mermaidcomplex) (via poetdreamer)
“The flesh is easy to satisfy. It’s the heart that is insatiable, the heart that...”
– Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood, p. 127 (via intracoastal-wanderings)
“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want...”
– Everett Ruess (via meditationsonisolde)
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“Who said you’re ugly?”
“The magazines - I’m not being melodramatic, I’m serious; if you rearrange the letters, they all spell out ‘KILL YOURSELF’.”
“So I’m not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via nadhira-ak)
“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive...”
– Franz Kafka (via theflickerplays)
“And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
“talking about virginity is so annoying to me, and here’s why- firstly it’s used...”
– mutualaddiction responding to an ask saying she was hot because she was a virgin (via mutualaddiction)
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“He is exactly
the poem
I wanted to write.”
– Mary Oliver, White Heron Rises Over Blackwater (via woodlace)
“— and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am going to...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via necronomical)
ahuntersheart:
“When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I’m even pleased that I’m falling in such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful. And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...”
– Leonard Cohen (via deermoon)
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shitty day
my ask is open
“When you were sleeping on the sofa
I put my ear to your ear and listened
to...”
– “The Secret,” Jeffrey McDaniel (via clavicola)
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via whoisschwa)
“I’ve long believed that what has kept writers, again myself included, from fully...”
– Don’t Write What You Know, Bret Anthony Johnston (via hurryuppleaseitstime)
Beautiful beautiful beautiful people
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“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via loveyourchaos)
“There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via j-i-m-m-y-d-e-a-n)
