March 2012
30 posts
February 2012
33 posts
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon… I talk to myself and...
– Sylvia Plath (via dreamofwhatcanbe)
One wants to turn away—and cry
for fire to break out on the stairs
and raze...
– Dana Gioia, from “Maze without a Minotaur” (via proustitute)
I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me...
– Anna Kavan, Asylum Piece (via awritersruminations)
You came into the heart of our grief.
This is a house dressed in black.
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to loose.
– Bob Dylan (via thenocturnals)
Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it,...
– Banana Yoshimoto (via thenocturnals)
I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value.
– Robert Walser, The Tanners, trans. Susan Bernofsky (via proustitute)
… desire is full
of endless distances.
– Robert Hass, from “Meditation at Lagunitas” (via proustitute)
I remember rooms that have had their part
In the steady slowing down...
– Charlotte Mew, from “Rooms” (via proustitute)
I don’t want to see you end up that way
with your body being poured like...
– (via ahuntersheart)
If we are silent for long enough,
we could start over.”
-Cyril Wong, from “A...
– (via ahuntersheart)
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Valentina Drag Ball next Friday! →
enmesh:
The Valentina Drag Ball is only a week away! Throw a little glitter on and support the Jasmine Valentina Scholarship fund.
If you can’t make it but still want to contribute to this worthy cause click through to learn how.
Thanks for your support!
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Self promotion!
For everyone who lives in Calgary! Come down to the distillery and catch my band Clusterfox in an hour! Cover is $10!
I want to leave this place
unremembered.
– Fanny Howe, from “The Cenotaph” (via proustitute)
It is quiet here. Not closing our ranks
weakens us hugely. The snowflakes...
– Mary Ruefle, from “The Letter” (via proustitute)
I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
Don’t try to fool the fist that’s tightening right beneath your heart.”
-Ted...
– (via ahuntersheart)
I don’t have a shadow anymore, either. Ah my shadow, my dear shadow. I should...
– André Breton, from “The Forest in the Axe,” trans. Bill Zavatsky and Zack Rogow (via proustitute)
The memory of you is what stays up, your body what subsides. Your ghost remains...
– Édouard Levé, Suicide, trans. Jan Steyn (via proustitute)