December 2010
353 posts
The Gods envy us.
They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might...
– Homer’s Iliad (via aeternum-)
Artemis: Favorite. :)
Crashingly Beautiful: Moments of Clarity →
crashinglybeautiful:
“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they…
The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned.
– William Carlos Williams, The Descent, epigraph from City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (via epigraphic)
Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness,...
– Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923 (via kvetchlandia & rhea137)
Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin...
– Margaret Atwood, courtesy of Whiskey River. (via crashinglybeautiful)
I pity those who dream the probable, the reasonable and the accessible more than...
– Fernando Pessoa, from ‘Text 143’, The Book of Disquiet. (via wine-loving-vagabond)