"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (via 4mbivalent)
(via The seventeenth of February, 2011: Mrs Lowell and the little lame balloonman | Clutterbuck)
Source of the first of my tattoos.
“My blood approves, and kisses are a better fate than wisdom”
Done
"If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes."
— William S. Burroughs (via philphys)
"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
— Edgar Allan Poe (via cosmosofchaos)
by e.e. cummings
mmmm yes. I considered a line from the poem (below) for a tattoo.
i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh… And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new
(Source: justyouraveragegentleman)
"Ah, good conversation—there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing."
— The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
"No matter what is doing the creating, I have to say that the giraffe and the rhinoceros are ridiculous."
— Kurt Vonnegut on Darwinism, Timequake
