February 2012
29 posts
“We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are.”
– J.M. Barrie 1860-1937, Aims for Oblivion. (via ontheborderland)
“Without science, you’d be writing poems in sand with a stick, and every time it...”
– My father translated from Mandarin (via littlebluepenguin)
from William Segal, "Openings"
crashinglybeautiful:
We are living in a special time. Throughout the world there is a stirring and an interrelation of forces never before experienced by mankind. All around us we see an unprecedented acceleration of the possibilities of change. Power potentials have been released which threaten to upset cosmic balances. Ironically, the more gigantic and astonishing our manipulations of these...
“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via kapi)
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to...”
– Albert Einstein (via sirmitchell)
Watchdetectivemajesty:
Shit cats say.
Finally.
“The Artist must create a spark before he can make a fire, and before art is...”
– Auguste Rodin
“Now this, in fact, is the real purpose of imagination: not to create fantasies,...”
– Colin Wilson
January 2012
71 posts
WatchSounds from a Room: Andrew Bird (via A Room for London on Vimeo)
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning. (via parabola-magazine)
3 tags
Celebrity Apprentices Through Time & Space →
Another list!
“I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
3 tags
LinkedIn's Recommendations on How to Complete My... →
New list up today on my website.
Jack, be →
Posted a new poem on my writing blog.
“The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.”
– Muriel Rukeyser (via tylerknott)
Shakespeare Professor's Thesis:
detectivemajesty:
Considering how emotional we as a class were about UP, he shudders to think what would happen if Pixar made an adaptation of King Lear.
If you write it, they will come.
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
– W.B. Yeats (via bodasdesangre)
