Roiled

“Seems the light is swiftly fadingBrighter scenes they do...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:01:58 -0600

“Seems the light is swiftly fading
Brighter scenes they do now show
I am standing by the river
Angels wait to take me home.”—The Cox Family

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the...

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:42:00 -0500

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

The only legend I have ever loved is the story of a daughter...

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:20:00 -0500

The only legend I have ever loved is

the story of a daughter lost in hell.

And found and rescued there.

--Eavan Boland, "The Pomegranate"

He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:42:21 -0500

He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

I have seen, I have beento places far and deep in my mindonly to...

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:20:03 -0500

I have seen, I have been
to places far and deep in my mind
only to find
comfort in your strangeness.

—Cynthia Alexander, “Comfort In Your Strangeness”

Barbie is just a doll. Mary Schmich

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:16:27 -0600

Barbie is just a doll.
Mary Schmich

Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle.

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:06:35 -0600

Rudolph Valentino in The Eagle.

marilynmay: [x]

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:52:18 -0600

marilynmay:

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littlelovenest: …to all my followers & friends

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:53:09 -0600

littlelovenest:

…to all my followers & friends

rudolphvalentino: The Delicious Little Devil (1919)

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:52:05 -0600

rudolphvalentino:

The Delicious Little Devil (1919)

inneroptics: Ruth St. Denis in The Peacock, posed on the...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:51:06 -0600

inneroptics:

Ruth St. Denis in The Peacock, posed on the grounds of Ravinia Park. (1914)

This plot just puts me to sleep.

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:49:32 -0600

This plot just puts me to sleep.

vintagemoviedelight: “The others around the table would be...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:47:49 -0600

vintagemoviedelight:

“The others around the table would be actor friends, dim figures you may still remember from the silent days. I used to think of them as her Wax Works.” - Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard

fuckyeahfiennes: Happy Birthday Ralph Nathaniel...

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:46:32 -0600

fuckyeahfiennes:

Happy Birthday Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (22 December 1962)

littlelovenest: Buster Keaton [Sherlock Jr. 1924]

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:45:36 -0600

littlelovenest:

Buster Keaton [Sherlock Jr. 1924]

Photo

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 19:43:08 -0600

honeyforthehomeless: Peanuts

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:59:47 -0600

honeyforthehomeless:

Peanuts

"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:57:45 -0600

“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

- Sigmund Freud (via livingmorbid)

vintageanchor: “(A writer) must teach himself that the basest...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:55:51 -0600

vintageanchor:

“(A writer) must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands.’
—from William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950

Read the whole speech here.

"I read Charles Dickens when I was 14 or 15. It might be hard for many 14, 15-year-olds today to read..."

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:54:37 -0600

“I read Charles Dickens when I was 14 or 15. It might be hard for many 14, 15-year-olds today to read Dickens. That language seems so old fashioned, if not exactly dated, to us now — the amount of detail, the sheer complexities of those stories and plots. But those were the novels I read that made me want to write novels. If I had read, frankly, some more modern or post-modern novels at the time, I might have wanted to do something else. I’ve always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story. Those old 19th century novels, all of them long, all of them complicated, all of them plotted. Not just Dickens, but especially Dickens, but also George Eliot, Thomas Hardy. And among the Americans, Melville and Hawthorne always meant more to me than Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald. I’m not a modern guy.”

- John Irving, Los Angeles Times (via bookoasis)