February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
3 tags
December 2011
5 posts
“But why is desire suffering?
Because want leaves a world in tatters?
How...”
– Molly Peacock, Why I Am Not A Buddhist
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
November 2011
4 posts
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
– William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1 tag
October 2011
9 posts
4 tags
2 tags
“This suit was cut by Hawkes of Savile Row. Just because the best tailoring...”
– Withnail
2 tags
2 tags
“Glances are the heavy artillery of the flirt: everything can be conveyed in a...”
– Stendhal (via americangentility)
2 tags
1 tag
“1
…
to every passerby who peered ironically
through the stakes of their...”
– Frank O’Hara, Two Epitaphs
1 tag
“And he quoted in Greek: ‘First the young, like vines, climb up the dull...”
– Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar
1 tag
“And pray to God to have mercy upon us
and I pray that I may forget
these...”
– T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday
September 2011
7 posts
2 tags
2 tags
“And in the wonderful language which they spoke, there is no shade of expression...”
– J. Adam, The Vitality of Platonism
1 tag
“The first word I hear on Christmas day in the morning is ‘shit.’ I...”
– John Cheever
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
August 2011
3 posts
1 tag
“You want the wrong thing, or too much of it. These discrepancies are at the core...”
– Charles Baxter, The Art of Subtext
July 2011
6 posts
2 tags
“The gift of the living to the dead awakens a response, which is Eros itself,...”
– Emily Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry
1 tag
3 tags
June 2011
7 posts
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“O dearest love! year after endless year
crept by: now joy has come, for you are...”
– Euripides, Helen trans. Philip Vellacott
May 2011
20 posts
1 tag
4 tags
3 tags
“Thunder only happens when it’s raining.”
– Stevie Nicks
1 tag
3 tags
“I don’t want to be a part of the United States—I don’t want to...”
– Robert Francis Kennedy