“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.”

- E.M. Forster

( no bedtime story you ever wanted to hear )

Happy St. Patrick's Day. In honor ( Read more... )

“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

- Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review

( introducing )

“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”

-Muriel Rukeyser

( as if it’s a benefit of grace )

“I have to make an effort not to take a moment to think about what I’m doing up there. That’s when you look down at your guitar and feel like it’s something you’ve never seen before. I try to avoid that moment. Like all these actions I’ll do now, it’s built in. I can’t fucking do the Macarena again tonight but if I don’t do it, I’ll fuck the next ( Read more... )

“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”

- Walt Whitman, from Song of Myself

( a glimmer of excitement behind the shades )

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

-Winston Churchill

( the only thing I knew, was that the ground was moving )

Some other time, man or woman, traveler ( Read more... )

They say you can jinx a poem ( Read more... )

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

- José Saramago | Blindness

( put on neon pageantry and thrown a death-parade )