May 2010
7 posts
“I may be mistaken, but I fancy that one can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, House of the Dead (1861) (via anin) (via dostoyevsky) (via booklover)
Poetry 365: The Bare Arms of Trees, John Tagliabue →
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Sometimes when I see the bare arms of trees in the evening
I think of men who have died without love,
Of desolation and space between branch and branch,
I think of immovable whiteness and lean coldness and fear
And the terrible longing between people stretched apart as these branches
And the…
Kylie Minogue & Nick Cave / Where The Wild Roses Grow
Ballads Album
“As I kissed her goodbye, I said, ‘All beauty must die’
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth ”
“When we are born, we cry, that we are come to this great stage of fools.” ~ William Shakespeare”
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