April 2011
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Diane di Prima, "Poem In Praise of My Husband" →
silentfrenzies:
I suppose it hasn’t been easy living with me either, with my piques, and ups and downs, my need for privacy leo pride and weeping in bed when you’re trying to sleep and you, interrupting me in the middle of a thousand poems did I call the insurance people? the time you stopped a poem in the middle…
longedisso asked: Hey, I really liked your blog! :D
And thank you for the follow, I hope you enjoy :)
And thank you for the follow, I hope you enjoy :)
Love isn’t about the romantic nights or gifts. It isn’t about fireworks going...
– Unknown (via fairylullaby)
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Best Friends . . . Forever
If life were like giving birth, I’d be the mom to be, up on a cold table, legs akimbo, struggling to find the strength and inner resolve to do what needs to be done. You would be the Lamaze coach, soothing me. Whispering words of encouragement. Giving up your hand to my crushing grip of fear.
I’m basically letting you know you’re the doula of my life.
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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
– Jessamyn West (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or...
– — Madeleine L’Engle
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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Depression has woven itself into the fabric of my being. My soul is a rich, vibrant quilt with ink-like swirls that cut through the ordered squares, oftentimes leaving only tiny corners of color to peek through. I find myself oddly protective of it. Perhaps it’s the darkness of those swirls that makes the bright hues shine with such incandescence.
Libraryland: "I Write in the Laundromat" by Marcy... →
libraryland:
I write in the Laundromat. I am a woman and between wash & dry cycles I write. I write while the beans soak and with children’s voices in my ear. I spell out words for scrabble while I am writing. I write as I drive to the office where I type a man’s letters and when he goes to lunch I write. …
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’! -Audrey Hepburn
– (via yanilavign3)
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Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.
– Allen Ginsberg, Poet (via quote-book)
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