May 2013
14 posts
“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars...”
– Anaïs Nin, Fire (via larmoyante)
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, “Here is New York”
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“Well, I can’t describe her exactly—except to say that she was beautiful. She...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via philo-sofia)
March 2013
4 posts
“Guilt is cancer. It will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist....”
– In his SXSW 2013 keynote, Dave Grohl reminds us of the importance of doing things for the right reason. (via explore-blog)
January 2013
2 posts
December 2012
1 post
October 2012
9 posts
September 2012
13 posts
“At these moments, which are characterised by the sudden lifting of the burden of...”
– T. S. Eliot on the mystical quality of creativity (via explore-blog)
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they...”
– This letter from poet Ted Hughes to his 24-year-old son, written 23 years after Sylvia Plath took her own life, is the most moving thing you’ll read today, this week, and possibly this year. (via explore-blog)
“[T]he real value of a real education [has] almost nothing to do with knowledge,...”
– On the 4th anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s death, revisiting This Is Water – his extraordinary Kenyon College graduation speech, the only public talk he ever gave on his views of life. (via explore-blog)
August 2012
39 posts
“This is what the world requires – this is what the world rewards. Not just...”
– Ringling College of Art and Design Commencement Speech. By J.C. Herz. (via kaupe)
