February 2011
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I AM UPSET. →
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Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory. ‘Gainst death and...
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I was young once. I dug holes near a canal and almost drowned. I filled notebooks with words as carefully as a hunter loads his shotgun. I had a father also, and I came second to an addiction. I spent a summer swallowing seeds and nothing ever grew in my stomach. Every woman I kissed, I kissed as if I loved her. My left and right hands were rivals. After I hit puberty, I was kicked out of my...
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“English is a mess. No doubt about it.”
– Tim Peltason
January 2011
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“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all...”
– John Steinbeck (via bunnymitford) (via earlyfrost) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“And where does he now exist? Is this gentle and lovely being lost forever? Has...”
– Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (via colourmegreenwich)
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fuckyeahstvincent:
Ringtone!
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“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and...”
– James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
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Germinal by Zola (in English), a complete anthology of Allen Ginsberg poems, and Atonement bought today.
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Even though I'm at a completely different school,
I’m still shocked every time I see a boy walking around here on his own accord. You gotta keep a leash on those things.
Oh wait, I’m the intruder.
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Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That the dear she might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe: Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others’ leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and...
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