Don't Let 'Em Smash Your Roses

Ask me anything   Submit   A compilation of random wondering, encompassed by a struggle to find substance in a world of commentary.

"Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things."
T.S Eliot (via blua)
— 2 weeks ago with 177 notes
"I think as a poet you have to have certain things under your belt—the Cassandra myth, the Trojan horse. You’ve got to have the essentials in your head; even if they aren’t essential, they’re at least beautiful. I’d rather have a little bit of knowledge than a whole lot of faith. I’d rather have knowledge, an encyclopedic head. Of course to be a poet you don’t have to know nada."
Gregory Corso 
— 1 month ago

Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all its students

Time is a great teacher, unfortunately it kills all its students

(Source: tagatag, via pie-sandwich)

— 1 month ago with 6014 notes
Sharing Poetry: e.e. cummings, "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" →

sharingpoetry:

somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open…

— 2 months ago with 310 notes
“Copy is Strategy.  Copy is Moral Suasion.  Copy is Human Behavior.  Copy is what you do with what you have.  Copy is making you want what I have more than the money it costs.  Copy is taking an idea from the back of my head and putting it in the back of your head.  (For it is more important to mint ideas than to coin words.)  Copy is putting words together after you have learned how people are put together.”
-Hal Stebbins,from his address entitled, “Our Creative Challenge In a Changing World,” delivered at the World Conference of International Advertising Association in 1966
“An advertising man is a man who takes facts and translates them into ideas; translates these ideas into emotions; trantslates these emotions into people; translates these people into sales.” 
-Hal Stebbins, in an address entitled, “Words About Words,” delivered before the Advertising Association of the West in 1957

“Copy is Strategy.  Copy is Moral Suasion.  Copy is Human Behavior.  Copy is what you do with what you have.  Copy is making you want what I have more than the money it costs.  Copy is taking an idea from the back of my head and putting it in the back of your head.  (For it is more important to mint ideas than to coin words.)  Copy is putting words together after you have learned how people are put together.”

-Hal Stebbins,from his address entitled, “Our Creative Challenge In a Changing World,” delivered at the World Conference of International Advertising Association in 1966

“An advertising man is a man who takes facts and translates them into ideas; translates these ideas into emotions; trantslates these emotions into people; translates these people into sales.” 

-Hal Stebbins, in an address entitled, “Words About Words,” delivered before the Advertising Association of the West in 1957

(Source: blua)

— 2 months ago with 272 notes
#Hal Stebbins  #Copy  #Quote  #Nike  #Advertising  #Wisdom  #Vintage 
"I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there."
Charles de Montesquieu (via philphys)
— 3 months ago with 60 notes
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
Charles Bukowski (via ugh)

(Source: itsthismodernglitch, via stayanindividual)

— 3 months ago with 988 notes