05.08.12 /19:46/♥ 1147
lionskeleton: Frank Gonzales 
05.08.12 /19:44/♥ 729

It takes hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

~   Jonathan Franzen
05.08.12 /19:44
katespadeny: borrow books
04.26.12 /21:33/♥ 3233
04.26.12 /21:32/♥ 570

We were twenty
for such a short time and always in
the wrong clothes, crusted with dirt
and sweat. I think now we were never twenty.

~   Phillip Levine
04.26.12 /21:30

lionskeleton:

Simon Casson

04.26.12 /21:23/♥ 905

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

~   Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo”
04.26.12 /21:21
04.06.12 /00:00/♥ 3
katespadeny: penguin pile
04.05.12 /23:29/♥ 3123
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