February 2012
“My hands are empty because I would rather hold nothing than hang on to something...”
– (via saltwater-season)
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I don't know if I can survive today.
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The drugs are becoming me. I shouldn’t have done that. That was bad.
It’s too quiet. Too quiet for me to be calm.
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oliviaiskablamo:
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periferie:
“the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them”
—
Charles Bukowski, “Cause and Effect”
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even...”
– Charles Bukowski (via misswallflower)
Basil Bunting's Advice to Young Poets
peachdrug:
1. Compose aloud; poetry is a sound. 2. Vary rhythm enough to stir the emotion you want but not so as to lose impetus. 3. Use spoken words and syntax. 4. Fear adjective; they bleed nouns. Hate the passive. 5. Jettison ornament gaily but keep shape Put your poem away till you forget it, then: 6. Cut out every word you dare. 7. Do it again a week later, and again. Never explain - your...
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via precioushorrors)
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
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I am so fond of contemporary art.
They just don’t make sense, and that fascinates me.
“You choose what to think about. And you may not feel that way every day, but the...”
– John Green, on The Fault in Our Stars at the Tour de Nerdfighting Event in Austin, Texas (21 January 2012)
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January 2012
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It’s strange how people keep saying good things about you that you refuse to accept but when you finally do they call you arrogant.
Like, I’ve been called intelligent, and not just clever but the type of natural inbred intelligence where I can magically pull information from thin air without the need to study it. The type of intelligent that people envy because they can’t pass...