Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.
—Mark Twain (via libraryland)
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
—Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
(Source: thelastenglishrose)
Dream Deferred - Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Langston Hughes
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via catback-)
Quack
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
—Henry Miller
