November 2011
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October 2011
22 posts
May 2011
5 posts
“It’s like forgetting the words to your favorite song. You can’t...”
– Regina Spektor, “Eet”
Osama Bin Laden has been dead for an hour and I’m already tired of it.
April 2011
5 posts
to thine own self be true.
From Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
Polonius: “Give thy thoughts no tongue,
nor any unproportioned thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel,
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment.
Of each new-hatched, unfledged courage. Beware
Of entrance to a...
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dreamless times.
He was beautiful, and he was mine. He treated me like gold, and he held me like it would be a sin to let go. The throes of this world shook us, and we let go. He’s stubborn, he’s spontaneous, he’s misunderstood. He’s lovely, he’s wonderful, and he’s so far out of my reach. He opened me up to every feeling, every experience, every amazing circumstance on...
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only breaking.
I cannot sleep. I want to make myself a cocoon of blankets, music and feeling. I want to drown in the sound of melodies and harmonies.
Time never stops. Every second continues to race out of my grasp, slipping between my fingers, mocking my attempts at holding onto a moment, a memory, a song. It seems as if this is how it’ll always be. I am so small in the universe, yet it feels like I...
Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
This is the most intriguing part of the half of Hamlet that I have read.
Hamlet: “Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on ‘t, ah fie! ‘Tis an unweeded garden...
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Desiderata.
This is the most inspirational and overall phenomenal poem I have ever read.
Written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920’s, this is Desiderata.
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the...