January 2011
yes yes: The Answer →
yesyes:
Is the clarity, the simplicity, an arriving or an emptying out? If the heart persists in waiting, does it begin to lessen? If we are always good does God lose track of us? When I wake at night, there is something important there. Like the humming of giant turbines in the high-ceilinged stations in the slums. There is a silence in me,
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a...”
– Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (via psychotherapy)
“When I awoke I was twenty, being asked
If I had a happy childhood. Yes, the one...”
– Alfian Sa’at, Autobiography
“Mignonne, allons voir si la rose
Qui ce matin avoit désclose
Sa robe de...”
– ronsard, a sa maitresse
“As one might guess, the praxis of male feminist epistemology calls for different...”
– Steven P. Schacht, The Promise of a Male Feminist Epistemology, 2001. (via malefeminist)
“Locate I
love you some-
where in
teeth and
eyes, bite
it but
take...”
– Robert Creeley, The Language
yes yes: Meditations in Lagunitas →
yesyes:
All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown- faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling…
Social Animal (The New Yorker) →
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner working of the human mind. Far from being dryly materialistic, their work illuminates the rich underwater world where character is formed and wisdom grows. They are giving us a...
“There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via psychotherapy)
“The origins of Nina’s war of identities aren’t clear, and this is the movie’s...”
– Kartina Richardson on Black Swan
I have now seen it three times, and there are parts I still don’t understand, but this convinces me it’s better that way. We’re more wrapped up in her way of thinking and her lost sense of reality.
(via tulletulle)
I’m one of those people who had various qualms...
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your...”
– Charles Eames (via crookedindifference)
“The chastest expression I have ever heard: “Dans la véritable amour c’est l’âme,...”
– Nietzsche (via yesyes)
“Take a sip when:
1. Tracy says someone’s full name.
2. Kenneth says “Mr....”
– LETSPLAY
Epic Magazine: You Know →
epic:
Spend enough time tapped into the newest new music, the important older music, the freshest look, the slickest blogs and you begin to think, I am sharp. I know amazing things that most people have no clue about, at all. You sneer anytime Papyrus font appears anywhere and quietly…
let it go - the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise - let it go it was sworn to go let them go - the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers - you must let them go they were born to go
let all go - the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things - let all go dear so comes love
— e.e. cummings
“Oh baby, why aren’t you here to help me spike the punch?”
– James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara, in a letter sent from Rome, 1954