Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (via seabois)
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.
— Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (via seabois)
Maybe one morning I’ll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger (via seabois)
Marilyn photographed in Hawaii, 1954.
A week after adopting my pair of then four-month-old kittens, I had to leave early one snowy morning for jury duty. I was a little reluctant to leave them, since it was going to be the longest time they had spent alone since coming home. Lily must have been feeling some separation anxiety as well,…
Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.”
― Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
— (via journalofanobody)
Here is dust remembers it was a rose
one time and lay in a woman’s hair.
Here is dust remembers it was a woman
one time and in her hair lay a rose.
Oh things one time dust, what else now is it
you dream and remember of old days?
— Carl Sandburg, Dust (via feralcreature)
(Source: arpeggia)