February 2011
78 posts
January 2011
58 posts
kennedycurse:
The Tallest Man On Earth // Steal...
A skilled writer not only sounds good, but makes sense. He sits with you, provokes you, pulls an understanding from you, connects with you, even through his abstraction. He remembers and adheres to one simple, but lasting rule: omit needless words.
hardlygolden:
dead man’s bones - in the room...
For my friend Davey, the poet
A great quote to inspire writing!
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things… There are many people who appreciate the expression of sincere emotion in verse, and there is...
“Different now, every step feels like a mile.
All the lights seem to flash and...”
– Jose Gonzalez
kennedycurse:
Owen // Bags of Bones
“You, and...
East of Eden
“In uncertainty, I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between...
I followed my heart
stilltheking:
and it led me straight into the ground. But I’d do it again.
