February 2012
14 posts
apomakrysmenophobia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. fear that your connections with people are ultimately shallow, that although your relationships feel congenial at the time, an audit of your life would produce an emotional safety deposit box of low-interest holdings and uninvested windfall profits, which will indicate you were never really at risk of joy, sacrifice or loss.
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
(via holdonmagnolia)
“The purest note
a poet strikes
comes always from a
bad piano.”
– Geoff Page, from “The Languages” (via the-final-sentence)
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