February 2012
172 posts
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell (via lucifelle)
“You are alive only in the proportion that you are aware. Awareness is the...”
– Osho (via lucifelle)
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon →
You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon. Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information– often an unfamiliar word or name– and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly....
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Dear Internet,
The snow buried my plans for tonight, but its falling allows me to push back my bedtime as school will be closed tomorrow. I have been struggling to write lately, and I swore that the snow would bring about some sudden inspiration, but alas, I cannot force it. My genius is a swollen prostate; each poem I write is a sorry tinkle of piss that passes through me and then dribbles over me. How’s...
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A man said to the universe: “Sir I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.” by Stephen Crane
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Should the wide world roll away, Leaving black terror, Limitless night, Nor God, nor man, nor place to stand Would be to me essential, If thou and thy white arms were there, And the fall to doom a long way. by Stephen Crane
“Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.”
– William Shakespeare (via lucifelle)
“When you will have made him a body without organs,
then you will have delivered...”
– Antonin Artaud
via in-circles [via frenchtwist]
(via nodalpoint)
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if you like my poems let them
if you like my poems let them walk in the evening,a little behind you then people will say “Along this road i saw a princess pass on her way to meet her lover(it was toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants.” by e.e. cummings
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Sweeney among the Nightingales
Apeneck Sweeney spread his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. The circles of the stormy moon Slide westward toward the River Plate, Death and the Raven drift above And Sweeney guards the hornèd gate. Gloomy Orion and the Dog Are veiled; and hushed the shrunken seas; The person in the Spanish cape Tries to sit on Sweeney’s knees...
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Dance of Girls' Chemises
A dozen girls’ chemises drying on a line, floral lace at the breast like rose windows in a Gothic cathedral. Lord, shield Thou me from all evil. A dozen girls’ chemises, that’s love, innocent girls’ games on a sunlit lawn, the thirteenth, a man’s shirt, that’s marriage, ending in adultery and a pistol shot. The wind that’s streaming through the chemises, that’s love, our earth embraced by its...
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“Through the city a wide river flows,
Beneath the span of seven bridges,
A...”
– Jaroslav Seifert - “A Song About Girls” (via lucifelle)
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the...”
– Salvador Dali (via lucifelle)
Sobriety is a real trip.
“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would...”
– Eckhart von Hochheim (via lucifelle)
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Deathbed Conversion
Lord, I’m weak, give me strength, Or help me carry the weight. I haven’t had a drink In a week, And I can’t stand the wait. I can’t force my shoes to lace. I can’t find the doorknob, Or face Any of this alone. Lord, let me leave my home. Lord, let me leave my home. This cough is getting worse, Lord. The crust of my nose Crumbles, dropping out. My thin cowardice shows;...
