January 2012
14 posts
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via randomitus)
“Nothing makes me feel better — calmer, clearer and happier — than being in one...”
– The Joy of Quiet - Pico Iyer for The New York Times (via jennilee)
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via booksandnerds)
Martha Wainwright on Creative Inspiration
I definitely don’t have rules – I’m pretty disorganised. In fact, I often have to guilt-trip myself into sitting down to write. It is so easy to let your life get filled up with other stuff – cooking, cleaning, going to the bank, looking after your baby. These everyday things do come through in my songwriting, though. Most of my songs are defined by a sense of loneliness, of isolation,...
December 2011
22 posts
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...”
– Mark Twain (via alovet)
Reality is not allowed to enter my world today. ...
teachingliteracy:
insertoriginalitywhere
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
“I can remember at school how we would read together in class an Ode by Keats, a...”
– Stephen Fry - Making History (via emmatleena)
“You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you...”
– John Berryman (via unicornology)
November 2011
20 posts
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
– ― Leo Tolstoy (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
houseofromanov:
it is, necessary to make one useful in the bigger picture of society? i am not useful, i do not contribute, i just feed cats, and… exist.
“I’m sick of my own romanticism!”
– Anaïs Nin (Henry and June)
