February 2012
“You want to wash yourself
in earth, in rocks and grass
What are you supposed...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Down” (via yesyes)
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
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“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh
“My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity in...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, Under a Certain Little Star (via yesyes)
RIP, darling poet. Wislawa Szymborska, Nobel-Winning Polish Poet, Dies at 88
January 2012
“i cock my chin like i was
a storybook. like i was tom sawyer
but a girl
all...”
– Nina Buck, excerpt from Fish Tacos and Horchata (via holdonmagnolia)
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“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via proustitute)
“Gods always behave like the people who make them.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via nevver)
“How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars,...”
– Eavan Boland, Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet (via yesyes)
“The scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music...”
– Scientists find English is an overwhelmingly positive language. Further reading: Steven Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. (via curiositycounts)
There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions →
racialicious:
yourhue:
From “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions” by Audre Lorde
I was born Black, and a woman. I am trying to become the strongest person I can become to live the life I have been given and to help effect change toward a liveable future for this earth and for my children. As a Black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, poet, mother of two including one boy and a member of an...
“My shift lasted from 6 p.m. to midnight. Sylvia warned me that George often came...”
– James Gregor remembers George Whitman, of Shakespeare and Company. (via millionsmillions)
“Freedom is █████ ███████████ █████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ███...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stop SOPA and PIPA. (via ckck)
“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”
“Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have...”
– Noam Chomsky (via revolutionnow)
Today, like every day, is a really good day to... →
“in time of daffodils (who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting...”
– ee cummings (via starryhours)
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”
– Anna Akhmatova (via beautyandthemuse)
