“Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart, of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants, the way it stops and starts.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
(Source: tenderskin)
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“So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.” Pablo Neruda (Source: radanta) |
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.” Simone de Beauvoir (Source: babysanyasi) |
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.” Oscar Wilde (Source: misswallflower) |
“Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn’t sex, but the passion with which it is practiced.” Paulo Coelho (Source: terramantra) |
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.” Victor Hugo (Source: misswallflower) |
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” William G.T. Shedd (Source: teacuphuman) |
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.” Lewis Thomas (Source: joshuakaufman) |
“I am sorry for having put them into the world. It’s not their fault. Life isn’t easy and the moment you find out life is real, you are condemned to fight, to suffer.” Yohji Yamamoto, about his children (Source: silverscents) |
“Everything in the Universe seems to be just a vibration. Every atom, every part of an atom, every electron, every elementary “particle,” even our thoughts and consciousness, are just vibrations.” Tom Chalko |
“The trouble is—-excuse my cliches—-as people grow older, non-artists, that is, they do have to steel themselves so much, forget so much, and try to pretend that everything’s all right so much. They are afraid, probably rightly, that poetry—-any art—-if they take it hard, might upset them—-so they pretend they like it while at the same time they resist it absolutely.” Elizabeth Bishop, in a letter to Robert Lowell, 1963 |
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is ‘mere’. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part… What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?” Richard Feynman |
