Theworldisquiethere• Show poetry

Where do I begin...I'm a sophomore in college, mildly obsessed with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and late night conversations. I connected Alice Lidell to Oscar Wilde playing six degrees of separation (Alice Liddell -> Charles Dodgson (Lewis Caroll) -> George MacDonald -> G.K. Chesterson -> Oscar Wilde.) This is what I do late at night...
I'm fascinated by old things...clothes, music, films - the 60s in particular. Some of my favorite musicians include but are definitely not limited to...Ella Fitzergald, She & Him, The Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, Andrew Bird, Radiohead, The Zombies, The Vogues, The Shirelles and Rilo Kiley. She & Him is the kind of thing I'm listening to on repeat these days...and playing on the guitar and singing on over and over...I recently learned the solo that's in "Black Hole," it was maybe the most exciting thing that's happened to me since school started along with learning the 12 bar blues.

I don't write much poetry anymore and honestly, am really embarrassed by what I've written in the past - but if the mood strikes me, I'll be posting here If nothing else, you should go here: www.savethewords.org


You are what you love, and not what loves you back.

"An adventure is only an inconvenience considered the right way, and an inconvenience is an adventure considered the wrong way."
-G.K. Chesterton

"Our worst fears lie in anticipation." -Madmen

"I could tell you of my adventures - beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly; "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
-Susan Sontag

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."
- Wayne Dyer

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
- Alan Keightley

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson

My mind keeps spinning closer and closer to the rain on the roof and the rain in my head

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.
- Sherwood Anderson

"Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin." - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

That's the essential goal of the writer: you slice out a piece of yourself and slap it down on the desk in front of you. You try to put it on paper, try to describe it in a way that the reader can see and feel and touch. You paste all your nerve endings into it and then give it out to strangers who don't know you or understand you. And you will feel everything that happens to that story -- if they like it, if they hate it. Because no matter how you try to distance yourself from it, to some degree you feel that if they hate it, they hate you.
Which isn't the truth, you understand. At least you understand that in your head...but not always in your heart.
- Stephen Leigh

Love all. Trust Few. Do wrong to no one.
- William Shakespeare

if you're a bird, i'm a bird

I was never no, never no, never enough, but I can try, I can try to toughen up.

"If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
-Yogi Berra