"Inspired by love and guided by knowledge"

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"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge" Bertrand Russell
She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned. She had plenty of evidence that she had a good life. She just couldn’t feel the life she had. It was as though she had cancer of the perspective.

Carrie Fisher, Postcards From the Edge (via galadrielles)

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We sift through memory’s ash; this is age, cutting off histories like tree limbs and looking for the rings.

Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn (via days-of-reading)

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan’s men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you’d return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song (via daypoems)

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ella-g-elegy

Mad Girl’s Love Song original copy from Lily Library (please credit if using photo) #sylviaplath #sylvia Plath #madgirlslovesong #poetry

Friday- January 29th, 2016

It’s another snow day (God bless) so I was finally able to start studying for the AP exams ((which are actually a lot closer than you think))

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Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Ugolino and His Sons detail

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead

James Joyce’s The Dead

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The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life.

Orhan Pamuk (via noelamour)

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens (via noelamour)

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