June 2011
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“I thank you with all my heart (do not come) I shall write to you tomorrow. This...”
– Marcel Proust, from a letter to La Comtesse de Noailles, undated 1905 (source)
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“Night finds no consolation in night, but in the lavish star bespangled with all...”
– Edmond Jabès, from “Pre-Dialogue II,” trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
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“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American lecturer, essayist and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century via amiquote (via arsvitaest)
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“All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.”
– Marcel Proust (via briannekennedy)
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“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”
– Isabelle Eberhardt (via aperfectcommotion)
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“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms…”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “You Will Hear Thunder”
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“No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.”
– Juliusz Słowacki [This has been making the rounds with the wrong author credits; I wanted to come out of Tumblr hiding to correct this. Please feel free to reblog with the correct author attribution and take this note out.] (via proustitute)
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“‘The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you...”
– Charles Bukowski (via artemisdreaming)
“My key
has lost its house.
I go from house to house
but none fits.
I have...”
– Rose Auslander, “My Key” (translated by Eavan Boland)
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Landscape with The Fall of Icarus
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by William Carlos Williams
According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with itself sweating in the sun that melted the wings’ wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning (Brueghel’s painting) [via...
