April 2012
18 posts
tulletulle:
the saddest, sweetest lullaby.
“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every...”
– John Burroughs; Studies in Nature and Literature (via wordpainting)
life:
Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou.
In 1997 LIFE asked the writer and poet Maya Angelou if she would consider writing on the topic of heroes and heroism for the magazine. Below are the two concluding stanzas.
These mothers, fathers, pastors and priests, These Rabbis, imams and gurus, Teach us by their valor and mold us with their courage. Without their fierce devotion We are only forlorn and...
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who...”
– Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak (via faeriepetals)
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books...”
– Eudora Welty (via divine-despair)
