"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music—the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."

Henry Miller (via terramantra)

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"Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect."

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via litverve)

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"Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper."

David Quaimen (via alighthouseofwords)

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teachingliteracy:

Gladstone library by ~Akonyte

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apoetreflects:

 … I envy
those poets who loved their childhood, those who remember
the extra places laid out, the china and glasses.
They want to devour the past, they revel in pity,
they live like burnt-out matches, memory ruins them;
again and again they go back to the first place.

—Gerald Stern, lines from “This Was a Wonderful Night” in The Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (University Press of New England, 1985)

Paul Éluard (1895-1952)

Les animaux et leurs hommes: Les Hommes et leus animaux.

Paris: Au Saint Pareil, 1920

apoetreflects:

“I’ve had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”

—Kenneth Rexroth

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betzistar:

Joan Didion

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Still from the film “Blow-Up” directed by

Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966

Inspired by  Julio Cortazar’s short story “Las Babas del Diablo” (The Devil’s Drool), 1959

David Hemmings and Veruschka