January 2012
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this isn't happiness.: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s... →
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Days of this February were white and magical, the nights were starry and crystalline. The town lay under a cold glory.
Dyed Siberian horse.
As thin as a repeated dream.
The sea was coming up in little intimidating rushes.
The island floated, a boat becalmed, upon the almost perceptible…
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It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat
but often the shadow seems more...
– Tomas Tranströmer, from After a Death, translated by Robert Bly
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She strung the afternoon on the necklace of memorable days, which was not too...
– Virginia Woolf,Moments Of Being. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really...
– W. S. Merwin
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We were wanderers from the beginning.
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, New York: Random House, 1994 (Yes. Thank you, amiquote)
Phosphenes n. the stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes.