February 2012
301 posts
“If you can bring nothing to this place
but your carcass, keep out.”
– William Carlos Williams, from “Dedication for a Plot of Ground” (via proustitute)
“There are no unsacred places;
there are only sacred places
and desecrated...”
– Wendell Berry, from “How to Be a Poet” in Given (via proustitute)
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That...”
– Pascal Mercier (via mirroir)
“And what the dead had no speech for, when living,
They can tell you, being...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
“Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.”
– Thomas Carlyle