The French Phantom: Archives

“All he has to do is come in and sit down for half an hour. When he leaves, the chair’s broken, the lamp’s broken. Ez[ra Pound] is fine, but I can’t afford to have him in the house. ” —

—Gertrude Stein

Writers on the attack: Melville House’s slideshow includes Poetry contributors Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T.S. Eliot, and Elizabeth Bishop insulting other writers.

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“If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.” — Kurt Cobain (via uncuntcious)

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sharingpoetry:

As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians and Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
…

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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” —Ernest Hemingway (via vvolare)

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What am I in the eyes of most people: a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person. Somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then. Even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.

That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

” —Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo, 1882 (via artpedia)

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“sometimes I’ve believed in as many as six impossible things before breakfast” —Lewis Carroll (via evachen212)

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“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.” —John Green. (via brittanyschoice)

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“There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.
You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.
Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.
Whenever it rains you will think of her.” — Neil Gaiman (via l-amour-fou)

Old poem I wrote.

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“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” —(via breakfromlife777)

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” —H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You (via prettygraves)

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“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.” —Susanna Kayson (via vvolare)

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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” —Robert Fulghum, True Love (via kari-shma)

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Jul 30, 2012

#Thurston Harris #I'm Out To Getcha

“

We are all shades of gray.
Its been said again and again; life is a process,
we are fleeting moments that come and go,
and I’m grateful to have my time,
my aspirations and my mistakes,
my flaws and my abilities,
think of me what you will,
but before you do,
don’t.

I am a liar.
I am self absorbed.
I am in this for me.
I am seeking recognition.
I am not concerned with politics.
I am attempting to rise to the top.
I am never going to forget my intentions.
I am allowed to worry about my own life above the lives of others.

After all,
I am human.

” —Alex Gaskarth (via ifuckedalexgaskarth)

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“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” —Jonathan Safran Foer (via kari-shma)

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“Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.” —Wendell Berry (via kateoplis)

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“We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to ‘win the hearts and minds of the people’ by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the ‘truth’ of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations… . I have come to the realization that I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war.” —Wendell Berry, 1968 (via kateoplis)

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“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.” —Sylvia Plath (via sylvpla)

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sharingpoetry:

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a…

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“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot…” —Robert A. Heinlein (via nathanielstuart)

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“Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us out to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.” —Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge (via awritersruminations)

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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” —William H. Gass; A Temple of Texts (via wordpainting)

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#Wolfmother #Mind's Eye

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#Wolfmother #Vagabond

“So many people live with unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.” —“Into The Wild” Christopher McCandless (Alex Supertramp)

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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” —Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredible Close (via bchr)

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“Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth.” —Henry David Thoreau (via ponyboylovessunsets)

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“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.” —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900, Ireland/France)

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Label: Island Records

Album(s): Every Kingdom (Debut, 2011)

Notable tracks: Old Pine, Only Love, Keep Your Head Up

I’ve been an admirer of Ben Howard for a while without ever becoming overly enthusiastic about him, and personally I think that speaks volumes.

He cites a huge array…

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.” —Bertrand Russell (via ihatenipples)

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“You will fall in love with your friends. Deep, passionate love. You will create a second family with them, a kind of tribe that makes you feel less vulnerable. Sometimes our families can’t love us all the time. Sometimes we’re born into families who don’t know how to love us properly. They do as much as they can but the rest is up to our friends. They can love you all the time, without judgement. At least the good ones can.” —from The Types of People You Will Fall in Love With In Your 20s by Ryan O’Connell (via remnant)

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“We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.” —Dylan Thomas (via vvolare)

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sharingpoetry:

I kept my answers small and kept them near;
Big questions bruised my mind but still I let
Small answers be a bullwark to my fear.

The huge abstractions I kept from the light;
Small things I handled and caressed and loved.
I let the stars assume the whole of night.

But the big answers…

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“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” —Sigmund Freud (via graphitefingers)

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“What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn’t even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.” —Sarah Dessen (via phytos)

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