January 2012
1 post
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thewanderingwest)
December 2011
9 posts
“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of...”
– Hélène Cixous (via hyprcombustion)
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write...”
– Hélène Cixous (via goldlionarts)
“You’re beautiful but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via acidgypsy)
“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you,...”
– Richard Siken (via prima-volta)
milk-eyedmender: mitford: from the love letters of... →
mitford:
from the love letters of Zelda Fitzgerald, Part II
— I remember every single spot of light that ever gouged a shadow beside your bones. — Please don’t be depressed: nothing is sad about you except your sadness and the frayed places on your pink kimono and that you care so much…
November 2011
14 posts
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“I look up - as if to meet your voice
With all its urgent future
That has burst...”
– Visit (via suspiria-de-profundis)
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“We’re not even two people.
Even before we met,
we were just…
these two...”
– Sylvia. (via apanacea)
“(the proofs of death are statistics
and everyone runs the risk
of being the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (happy happy burfdai)
trans. W.S. Merwin
(via straymessages)
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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write...”
– from The Laugh of the Medusa by Cixous
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“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not...”
– from The Laugh of the Medusa by Cixous
“You are my treasure, my pale gold, the heart of my heart. You lie at the bottom...”
– Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente
Ugly crying.
(via subtlegraceofgravity)
“Sometimes I go to bed scared
of not coming through, the night
full of the...”
– Julie Suk, from “The Night Is Full of Us” (via proustitute)
“I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I...”
– Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (via whiskey river)
“And I don’t know, don’t know, if we belong together or apart, except that my...”
– Anne Sexton (via obsessive-scribbler) (via fuckyeahannesexton) (via awritersruminations) (via subtlegraceofgravity, obsessive-scribbler-deactivated)
“Sewn under the skin of my hands:
your name
that hands comforted.”
– Paul Celan, from Atemwende in Poems, trans. Michael Hamburger (via proustitute)
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“for you are the Fool, and the Hanged Man
whose light shines endlessly
and that...”
– Diane di Prima, “Zero” (via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)
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ahuntersheart:
“I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars Inside the church, the saints will all be blue, Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews, Their hands and faces stiff with holiness. The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild. And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness and silence.” -Sylvia Plath, from...
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“the young poet saying a prayer
is a form of panic”
– Jane Miller, from “A Young Poet” (via proustitute)
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“It seems we’ve left skin
in each other’s lungs. I should have
looked under...”
– Dust by Michael Meyerhofer (via grammatolatry)
October 2011
17 posts
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“But my words become stained with your love.
You occupy everything, you occupy...”
– WS Merwin
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
– Arundhati Roy (via talisman)
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via moldavia)
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via endorfins)
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“Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.”
– Simone De Beauvoir (via fuckyeahfeministartandliterature)
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“You hauled thirty-seven dead sheep down a hillside west of Helena. They’d...”
– from Confessions for Raymond Goodbird, by Melanie Rae Thon
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“Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means...”
– from Scheherazade by Richard Siken
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“I don’t just want your heart. I want your flesh, your skin and blood and bones,...”
– Isobel Thrilling (via katelizabeth)
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“To look at her was to love her.”
– from Herculine Barbin, translated by Richard McDougall
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“Every time you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.”
– Leonard Cohen, from: “The Story Thus Far” (via art-of-drowning)
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3liza asked: Hey that Lolita quote isn't actually from Lolita.
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“What’s wrong with you? I look at you
and I find nothing in you but two eyes...”
– Pablo Neruda, Love (via fuckyeahneruda)
September 2011
16 posts
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“I said goodbye again
sucking up all that was left of her into the
little that...”
– Charles Bukowski (via hip-)
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“At dusk, birch forest is a shore of bones.
I’ve pulled stones from the...”
– from Memoriam, by Anne Michaels
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