February 2012
53 posts
“safe
the house next door makes me
sad.
both man and wife rise early and
go...”
– Charles Bukowski
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware....”
– Ithaca — C.P. Cavafy
Martin Buber (via liquidnight)
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been...”
– Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF (thx, @ambercadabra)
“Without you the instruments would die.
One sits close beside you. Another takes...”
– Rumi, Night and Sleep (via jerzee55)
“Octave Mirbeau
“You’re obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions...”
– Octave Mirbeau (via jerzee55)
“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction (via jerzee55)
“You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via jerzee55)
“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via jerzee55)
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...”
– Rene Daumal
(via thatkindofwoman)
“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I...”
– Franz Kafka (via jerzee55)
“Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task,...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via creampuff-lion)
“I can’t pay my gas and light bills, my phone bill. It’s like trying to lift...”
– Charles Bukowski
“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but...”
– Socrates (via jerzee55)
3 tags
