January 2010
54 posts
“I’m certainly not going to change the way I write because I think it’s...”
– Morrissey (via spmorrissey)
“Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl...”
– - Maya Angelou (via thechocolatebrigade) (via libraryland)
Oh, this is a wonderful quote!
i-D Magazine, 1983
Id: How important are clothes to you?
Morrissey: They don't have the relevance they once had, like in the '60's you could look at someone and assess their personality. That's not the case anymore. Clothes are no longer the window of the soul.
Id: Ok, so is style important?
Morrissey: Style has nothing to do with clothes. You can't become stylish; either you are or you aren't. But you can become fashionable. You can go out and buy the stuff. But again, if you wear it badly it means nothing.
“I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama… Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t...”
– Tennessee Williams (via owlswallowvowels) (via libraryland)
“Wilde covered over his sincerest feelings with a cloak of affectation which many...”
– Andre Gide, If It Die (via girlmostlikely)
“The Brits are ghastly. I never would accept a Brit. It would be like Laurence...”
– Morrissey (via Solidair) (via spmorrissey)
on Oscar Wilde
mozzdaily:
sandysays:
bunnymitford:
My mother, who’s an assistant librarian, introduced me to his writing when I was 8. She insisted I read him and I immediately became obsessed. Every single line affected me in some way. I liked the simplicity of the way he wrote. There was a piece called The Nightingale And The Rose that appealed to me immensely then. It was about a nightingale who...
“I have always been intrigued by writers and singers and journalists whose...”
– Morrissey (via spmorrissey)
sexismandthecity:
Listen to women composers, from the middle ages to the turn of the 20th century.
