January 2010
18 posts
a haiku at 12:45 am, Thursday
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For the Sleepwalkers
Tonight I want to say something wonderful for the sleepwalkers who have so much faith in their legs, so much faith in the invisible arrow carved into the carpet, the worn path that leads to the stairs instead of the window, the gaping doorway instead of the seamless mirror. I love the way that sleepwalkers are willing to step out of their bodies into the night, to raise their arms and welcome...
“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Letters to a Young Poet (via sonsryan) (via quote-book)
“I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it...”
– Conan O’Brien
"Jay-Z has realized Andy Warhol's vision of the...
Slate’s Jonah Weiner states his case:
“On to the Next One” and why Jay-Z loves shouting out Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Damien Hirst.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Langston Hughes on Haiti, 1956
“Haiti, land of blue sea and green hills, white fishing boats on the sea, and the hidden huts of peasants in the tall mountains. People strong, midnight black. Proud women whose arms bear burdens, whose backs are very straight. Children naked as nature. Nights full of stars, throbbing with Congo drums. At the capital lovely ladies ambergold, mulatto politicians, warehouses full of...
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak...”
– Abraham Lincoln | via (supkylee) (via quote-book)