“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
“Love is more thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky”
hmhpoetry:

Nobel Prize winner Wislawa Szymborska passed away today, at 88 years old. She says it best herself:
A Note 
Life is the only way 
to get covered in leaves, 
catch your breath on the sand, 
rise on wings; 
to be a dog, 
or stroke its warm fur; 
to tell pain 
from everything it’s not; 
to squeeze inside events, 
dawdle in views, 
to seek the least of all possible mistakes. 
An extraordinary chance 
to remember for a moment 
a conversation held 
with the lamp switched off; 
and if only once 
to stumble upon a stone, 
end up soaked in one downpour or another, 
mislay your keys in the grass; 
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; 
and to keep on not knowing 
something important. 
timelightbox:

On the anniversary of John Lennon’s death, TIME looks at previously unseen images of the musician and his wife, Yoko Ono, taken by photographer Stephen Sammons during their 1969 “Bed In” protest. See more here. 
jeffdtaylor:
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Francesca Woodman, a photographer who committed suicide at age 22 in 1981, opens a show at the Guggenheim in March 2012. It is one not to miss.
“He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.”