Tomas Transtromer, from"Streets in Shanghai“ Bright Scythe
Jorie Graham, from “San Sepolcro”, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems
“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo
“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.”
-Francis Scott Fitzgerald
dead poets society (1989, written by tom schulman)
The heart has its storms, has its seasons of drooping but also its calms and even its times of exaltation. There is a time of sighing and of praying but there is also a time of answer to prayer. Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to Theo van Gogh, 3 November 1876 (via weltenwellen)
"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
-Michel de Montaigne
MARY OLIVER
Thirst (2006);
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Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
- William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair