January 2010
29 posts
“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not...”
– Michel de Montaigne
“I think that artists are collectors figuratively. I’ve noticed that my eye...”
– Walker Evans (via claytoncubitt) (via sympathyfortheartgallery)
“Friendship is devolving … from a relationship to a feeling—from something people...”
– Faux Friendship The Chronicle of Higher Education (via somethingchanged)
“O sun which clears all mists from troubled sight, such joy attends your rising...”
– Dante Alighieri (The Inferno. Canto XI, p. 92)
Wilder Shores of Love
Here where water is defined as the where in which Aphrodite was born is dissolution. (She will not save you.) Some call it drowning, some calling just above the pounding of the waves, some just below the fleeting impression of a life as heaven, indebted, together we were going to live by my lamp, I see that water makes us equal everything. - Cole Swensen (?)
Cy Twombly. Wilder Shores of...
“What would you be like if there was nobody else in the world? Who would you be...”
– Quentin Crisp
December 2009
31 posts
