May 2011
7 posts
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“On reading: “To read well, that is, to read books in a true spirit, is a noble...”
– This Western Feeling: Henry David Thoreau (pg. 66 in “Walden”)
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“I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, cooperate...”
– Henry David Thoreau in “Civil Disobedience”. The relevancy is astounding. (via godsbartab)
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“Rescue the drowning and tie your shoe strings.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via markmoney)
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little...”
– amandagendron: thought, reason, spirit
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there
abide,...”
– Emerson (via alittleunbroken)
April 2011
13 posts
“Harmony exists in difference no less than in likeness, if only the same keynote...”
– Margaret Fuller (Unitarian, Transcendentalist, reformer, author)
“Narcotics can not still,
the tooth that nibbles at thy soul.”
– Emily Dickinson (via freeasmyhair)
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“Saints and geniuses have often chosen a lonely position, in the faith that, if...”
– Margaret Fuller, The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men. Woman versus Women (1843)
“I think we should be men first, and subjects afterward.”
– Resistance to Civil Government - Henry David Thoreau (via willingworthy)
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mè mou tous kuklous taratte: I MEASURE every grief... →
iflickmywithers:
I MEASURE every grief I meet
With analytic eyes;
I wonder if it weighs like mine,
Or has an easier size.
I wonder if they bore it long, 5
Or did it just begin?
I could not tell the date of mine,
It feels so old a pain.
I wonder if it hurts to live,
And if they have to try, 10
And whether, could they choose between,
They would not rather...
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“The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend
Or the most agonizing Spy
An Enemy...”
– mè mou tous kuklous taratte:
Emily Dickinson
“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to...”
– Margaret Fuller (via kquinny)
March 2011
9 posts
“It dropped so low in my regard
I heard it hit the ground
And go to pieces on...”
– Emily Dickinson (via lacielacie)
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via saintsandpoets-)
“I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a...”
– Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson (via magneticmovements)
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March! →
February 2011
22 posts
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via kviazanko)
“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse...”
– Henry David Thoreau - 1849 (via badp0et)
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I...”
– Emily Dickinson
“We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via spreadthecalm)
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me...”
– Terror Vision:
Walt Whitman
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via pericolo)
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“A man is what he thinks about all day.”
– R.W. Emerson (via redwagon)
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via ohtemporaomores)
“Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I...”
– Louisa May Alcott (via buchliebe)
carlo-marx asked: ave you read much Kerouac or Ginsberg? also, Into The Wild was a good example of modern transcendentalism in my opinion.
“I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth...”
– Walt Whitman
