January 2011
5 posts
SWEET TALK. by Billy Collins
oscarprgirl:
You are not the Mona Lisa with that relentless look. Or Venus borne over the froth of waves on a pink half shell. Or an odalisque by Delacroix, veils lapping at your nakedness. You are more like the sunlight of Edward Hopper, especially when it slants against the eastern side of a white clapboard house in the early hours of the morning, with no figure standing at a window in a...
“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to...”
– A Streetcar Named Desire (via quotewhore)
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...”
– John Steinbeck (via quotewhore)