January 2012
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“When you’re young, you always feel that life hasn’t yet begun — that “life” is...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God (via larmoyante)
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“Poetry is a second life. I run parallel to myself. I am the soldier’s knees on...”
– Eve Jones (via weissewiese)
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December 2011
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Bitter
adreamaday:
You are not your heroes.
It’s a bitter thought, but
take it quickly,
for there is nothing more
wasteful than thinking
otherwise.
To stand upon the shoulders of giants,
you have to be prepared
to climb.
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“Hold fast to dreams
for if dreams die
life is a broken-winged bird
that can...”
– Langston Hughes (via pavorst)
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pavorst:
There is a kind of intimacy that I develop with paper. It happens when I touch a page between thumb and forefinger. It is as though the paper knows that I respect it, that I am drenching myself in its tissue and its sorrow. And when I press on a virgin page with the softness of ink, it is as though I am writing to the paper itself.
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emmacherry:
“And I’ll dance with you in Vienna, I’ll be wearing a river’s disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I’ll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.”
-Leonard Cohen
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“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
– Jules Renard (via pavorst)
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“I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to...”
– Roald Dahl, Boy (via technicoloring)
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“if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you
then...”
– edward estlin cummings (via pavorst)
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November 2011
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The million dollar space pen hoax →
There’s a famous legend that America spent millions on the development of a ‘space pen’ that writes upside down, while the Russians used a pencil. Here’s the truth behind the legend.
In fact, the Space Pen was developed by a private company and sold quite cheaply to NASA for space flights as part of a marketing gimmick. The Soviets, by the way, used them too.
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