Personal anthem? I think so.
(Source: lyrics2liveby)
Swoon-worthy designs.
identity
Nameless and faceless
Youth, on the streets, found wanting—
“I”, pickpocket, thief.
Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront, 1954, directed by Elia Kazan, winner of 8 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
The Dangers of Speed Reading
“I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
— Woody Allen
Reading a novel, a poem, a short story, reading anything at all, is not a race. It’s a marathon. You should revel in the language, relish each word like you were jumping into a lake on a hot summer’s day. There is nothing more profound or divine than the written word and to pervert, to desecrate and corrupt that notion in order to finish first is simply blasphemous.
JOON ★
I could spend my life on this site. Fantastic selection!
John Keats as played by Ben Whishaw in Jane Campion’s Bright Star. Although the film is specifically focussed on Keats’s short and inevitably fleeting romance with Fanny Brawne, Whishaw’s depiction of Keats is stellar. Neither Campion nor Whishaw merely endeavor to represent Keats as a young man in love, but as the complex, multifaceted, and three-dimensional individual who wrote such equally complex works as “Ode to a Nightingale,” and coined the theory of Negative Capability.
