December 2010
75 posts
“I like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles...”
– E. E. Cummings
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“Never before in his life had he known what happiness was. He knew at most some very rare states of numbed contentment. But now he was quivering with happiness and could not sleep for pure bliss. It was as if he had been born a second time; no, not a second time, the first time, for until now he had merely existed like an animal with a most nebulous self-awareness. But after today, he felt as if...
I won’t let go of your hand.
“There are two bodies — the rudimental and the complete ; corresponding with...”
– Edger Allan Poe, from “The Mesmeric Revelation”
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His room smells like death.
Whenever I come here I feel as if I’ve gone back in time, like I’m walking on this old ground with new feet. I don’t feel quite like myself, but the feeling is familiar. Step into an old life and watch the sun rise with new eyes.
“After was better. Before was only there so After could happen.”
– Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors (via sydneyrae)
A caterpillar sheds its skin to find a butterfly within.
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”
anyone lived in a pretty how town by E. E....
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn’t he danced his did
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn’t they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain
children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved...
Never forget who you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going.
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“The distance that the dead have gone does not at first appear; their coming back...”
– E. Dickinson
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“i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my...”
