April 2012
46 posts
“When I had time, he didn’t.”
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“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting...”
– Margaret Atwood (via beautyisanillusion)
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I can't believe
How many times I’ve complained in the last week.
I want to say something about how life always works out. Rejection is the universe making a decision for you, so you should never see it as you failing. Think of it as one less decision you have to make on your own- God intervenes. There’s nothing cooler! I’ve never felt hurt by rejection. Even being rejected by a guy has never...
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“I can no longer borrow comfort from the future to help my present grief.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via beautyisanillusion)
“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise,...”
– David Foster Wallace in The Pale King (via explore-blog)
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Flowers
This poem was just published in my college’s lit journal:
Flowers
“Flowers. Flowers.” O’Hara said As if someone might pause for a minute and think, how beautiful, flowers. Sometimes I sit alone, cutting at my dinner, and I think it might be nice to have you here at least for a glass of wine, or a recap of the news, or something about how everyone uses Latin, in some form, every day...
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– (via libraryland)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's list of things to worry... →
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“And when I go out I don’t feel anything, I just keep spending my money”
– “Last Year” - Best Coast
“I’m not going to cry all the time nor shall I laugh all the time.”
– Frank O’Hara
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“You took care of me when you knew I didn’t need taking care of. And then...”
“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘Don’t leave me...”
– Neil Gaiman (via beautyisanillusion)
"Countdown (Sick For the Big Sun)"-Phoenix
thechalkboxkid:
Do
You
Remember when
21
Years
Was
Old?
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especially because it's ultimately my fault
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It just makes me sad
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Katy
They say I mope too much
but really I’m loudly dancing.
I eat paper. It’s good for my bones.
I play the piano pedal. I dance,
I am never quiet, I mean silent.
Some day I’ll love Frank O’Hara.
I think I’ll be alone for a little while.
“I know so much about things, I accept so much, it’s like vomiting.”
– Spleen, Frank O’Hara
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“You are angry
because I see the white-haired
genius of the painter more...”
– Frank O’Hara, “To a Poet”
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“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
– Charles Bukowski (via coldwetground)
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“When I was eighteen, I wanted to tell my lovers every inch of every moment that...”
– Dana Spiotta (my professor), Stone Arabia
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