The things I tell my pillow: Archive

The things I tell my pillow

February 2012

“.اگر مرگ نبود همه ارزویش میکردند If there was no death, everyone would wish...”

– Sadegh Hedayat (via derradiokopf)

“The odd thing about this life is that you spend half your time trying to get...”

– Tom Waits (via tomwaitsvisualdictionary)

“We spoke all night in tongues, in fingertips, in teeth.”

– Robert Hass, from “Spring” (via the-final-sentence)

“All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the...”

– Ecclesiastes 1:7-9 (via somecallmejuke) Because my Milton class has me reading the Bible again. Don’t tell thirteen-year-old Liz that this is happening. Her angst-dragon will sweep one-third of the stars from the sky. (Get it? GET IT?)

“All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence...”

– W. H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror (via proustitute)

“It’s dark. You exhale a fist of memory. I love you like weathering wood in a...”

– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via floralnymph)

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