July 2012
“It is true of even the best of us that if an observer can catch us boarding a...”
– John Cheever, “The Summer Farmer”, Collected Stories and Other Writings, The Library of America, 2009, p. 108. (via msodradek)
“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me
full to the bone.”
– W. B. Yeats, from “The Wanderings of Oisin” (via crashinglybeautiful)
“People don’t really need holidays, after all; they can carry their holidays with...”
– Timo Sarpaneva (via yama-bato)
“Ist mein Leben geträumt oder ist es wahr?
Have I dreamed my life or is it real?”
– Walter von der Vogelweide, Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! (via frenchtwist)
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of...”
– Federico Fellini, Fellini on Fellini, translated by Isabel Quigly (via frenchtwist)
“There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness … I must...”
– Carl Jung, Letter to Sigmund Freud, 1911 from The Dionysian Self: C.G. Jung’s Reception of Friedrich Nietzsche (via frenchtwist)
Silence
crashinglybeautiful:
There is the sudden silence of the crowd above a player not moving on the field, and the silence of the orchid. The silence of the falling vase before it strikes the floor, the silence of the belt when it is not striking the child. The stillness of the cup and the water in it, the silence of the moon and the quiet of the day far from the roar of the sun. The silence when I...
“Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?...”
– Sylvia Plath, from Crossing the Water (via frenchtwist)
“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left...”
– H.P. Lovecraft (via frenchtwist)
“I hear the wind blow,
And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, from “Uncollected Poems” (translated by Richard Zenith)
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be...”
– Marcel Proust, The Captive, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff (via frenchtwist)
wonderfulambiguity:
J.S. Bach - Canons: BWV...
“Someday every woman will have orgasms - like every family has color TV - and we...”
– Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life (via frenchtwist)
“Through women you will see the entire universe.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, Our Lord Don Quixote: The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho, translation by Anthony Kerrigan (via frenchtwist)
“She awakens first at the touch of love; before that time she is a dream, yet in...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Diary of the Seducer (via frenchtwist)
“If you are wise you won’t be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you...”
– Aesop, The Cat and the Mice (via frenchtwist)
“Conversation between Heart and Mouth
I want yet should not think about him;
I...”
– Feng Menglong (1574-1646), Anonymous Poetry Collection, translated by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping (via frenchtwist) 