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My literary tattoo was inspired by Buddy Wakefield’s poem, Horsehead. Specifically the lines:
”..and he wouldn’t turn back, no matter how much slack was typed into his neck…”
My little penguin, dear to me because of the Penguin publishers who have provided me with so many of my favourite books.
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation.
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| — | Mikhail Bakunin (via evatalmadge) |
A reminder of the code I have strived to follow in the darkest times, first told me by one of my dearest teachers, and now a permanent note-to-self, in my own handwriting.
From Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, and also mentioned in Jim Harrison’s essay, Why I Write, or Not: “We paint our lives as we write our work, and I’m reminded of Whitman’s statement that a poet must “move wild laughter in the throat of death.”
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There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!
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| — | Jane Austen (via butterflies-in-nets) |
“tattoos the words ‘forgive me’…down the inside of his arm so that when he looks at his wrist he will remember
not to hate himself so much.” - Buddy Wakefield ~ Human The Death Dance
My handwriting. The butterfly is a symbol of self injury recovery. This tattoo and poem mean so much more to me than I could ever say
221B. ”You know my methods. Apply them.” - SirArthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Done by Katy @ Tattoo Noir. Pittsburgh, PA.
Teardrops fell into my open suitcase, I was unbearably sad, but how I wanted to live! I was ready to embrace and pack into my short life all that was accessible to man. I wanted to talk, and read, and pound with a hammer somewhere in a big factory, and stand watch, and till the soil.
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Anton Chekhov, The Story of an Unknown Man (via somelittlejoy) |
