“I pray in words. I pray in poems. I want to learn to pray through breathing, through dreams and sleeplessness, through love and renunciation.”
— Anna Kamieńska, from The Notebook, in Astonishments, trans. Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon (thank you, growing-orbits)
(via litverve)
9:13 pm |
May 23 2013
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“How many regions in space have already been
inside me. There are winds that seem like
my wandering son.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “The Sonnets to Orpheus: Book 2: 1” (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
(Source: litverve)
8:37 pm |
May 23 2013
| 237 notes
“Missing someone is like hearing
a name sung quietly from somewhere
behind you. Even after you know
no one is there, you keep looking back.”
— Tim Seibles, Slow Dance (via pilvur)
(via oldmanflower)
8:29 pm |
May 23 2013
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“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
(Source: bound-bliss, via slowlylosinglolita)
8:23 pm |
May 23 2013
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“The unfed mind devours itself.”
— Gore Vidal (via larmoyante)
(via oldmanflower)
12:19 pm |
May 23 2013
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“But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.”
— Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, “An Origin Story” (via anditslove)
(Source: larmoyante, via oldmanflower)
11:36 am |
May 23 2013
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“My memory loves you; it asks about you all the time.”
— Jonathan Carroll (via larmoyante)
(via oldmanflower)
11:23 am |
May 23 2013
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