"If not now, when?"
— Lyrics in a Jimmy Eat World song
How to wake up
How to wake up:
1. Confess your hidden faults
2. Approach what you find repulsive
3. Help those you don't want to help
4. Anything you are attached to, give that
5. Go to the places that scare you
― Pha Dampa Sangye to Machig Labdron
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
— Émile Zola
Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.
― Kenneth Rexroth
Never let the future disturb you.
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.”
“We've been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.”
― Yoko Ono
Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.
“Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. Part of what we always did was have sex and fight about it and break each other’s hearts. I guess there’s other kinds of love too. Great friendships. Working together. But poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling. Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You’re always home.”
― Eileen Myles
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
― Mae West