May 2011
So fresh and so clean, clean. New tumblr. Follow... →
April 2011
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel...”
– Sylvia Plath (via antevorta) (via youdpreferanastronaut)
DFW's Widow, the Artist Karen Green, Talks to 'The... →
poetbabble:
And then her email closes with a reminder of their first meeting, the hope of other fates. “You know, I still,” she suggests, “have a different ending (for him, for me): it’s the one where he controls his own damn poignancy, and also kisses me goodnight…”
“On behalf of Dave, Pat, & I, I would like to thank you all for your concern...”
– Krist Novoselic, 04/10/1994 (via youremyvitamins)
“And yet does it not all come again to the fact that it is a man’s world? For if...”
– Sylvia Plath (The Journals of Sylvia Plath pp. 29-30)
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
her-rabbits:
You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours bean green over blue In...
ANGUS STONE
quotesandwildoats:
“Recently I saw a documentary about children and it was said that children do not have to think, they just do it. They play in their imaginations. Your thoughts are a wonderland. When I write, a part of me is still a child. I see it as the most beautiful moments when I am by myself and write, because I feel that I draw from my imagination like Peter Pan you may say, or a...
42. He's Paying Less, She's Paying More
absentofgrace:
So we’ve covered already how there is a wage gap between men and women where women tend to make less money than men. Are you ready to hear that women also have to pay more for various products and services then men? It’s no wonder that women make up a majority of those living in poverty. It starts with little things in the drug store like more expensive shaving cream, Excedrin and...
“I regret nothing. No woman with any self-respect would have done less. The...”
– White Oleander by Janet Fitch (via thechocolatebrigade)
