May 2013
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“Shall I project a world?”
– Thomas Pynchon, from The Crying of Lot 49
May 21st
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May 21st
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“I would like to give you the silver branch, the small white flower, the one...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “Variation on the Word Sleep” (via commovente)
May 21st
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May 20th
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“My darling, the wind falls in like stones from the whitehearted water and when...”
– Anne Sexton, from The Truth the Dead Know
May 20th
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May 20th
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“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am...”
– Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (via inmilkwood)
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.”
– Charles Bukowski, from Selected Letters Vol. 4 (via deaths-and-entrances)
May 20th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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seasicksailors: old sport old sport old sport old sport old sport old sport old sport a poem by jay gatsby
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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May 18th
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“McSWEENEY’S: Why write poetry? LINDENBERG: I think there is a general...”
– McSweeney’s Books Q&A with Rebecca Lindenberg (via meiringens)
May 18th
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“and I wanted a love I could break like a dollar”
– Danniel Schoonebeek, from “Alibi (Honeylocust)” (Handsome, vol. 4)
May 18th
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May 18th
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“Imagine a room, a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist....”
– “Saying Your Names,” Richard Siken  (via commovente)
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 17th
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“Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change...”
– Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell (via lushious)
May 17th
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“I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.”
– Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters
May 17th
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May 17th
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“In the coffee shop, she sips her tea and watches each one of the people coming...”
– Toby Barlow, Sharp Teeth (via mirroir)
May 17th
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“We were not lovers, we were love.”
– Jeanette Winterson (via confessionsofaquoteaholic)
May 17th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”
– Mary Rakow (via kitty-en-classe)
May 16th
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“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily,...”
– Anne Carson, Introduction to Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
May 15th
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May 14th
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“Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them, warm them,...”
– “Warming Her Pearls”, Carol Ann Duffy (via francescanadine)
May 14th
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For Lenya on Her Way
Carrie Murphy The intimidation of the ocean which is nothing compared to escalators which are nothing compared to riding your bike in a miniskirt, banjoing along the road as the vee of your turquoise underwear is there & then not there, men looking & then not looking, which is nothing compared to driving alone in a strange state while a bass drum of hurricane gallops over, rain...
May 14th
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May 12th
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“Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was...”
– excerpt from “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath; originally collected in the posthumously published volume Ariel (via wildthicket)
May 11th
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“I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile,...”
– Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer.” (via rivulet)
May 11th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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May 10th
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“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism....”
– Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
May 10th
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“I. When I was trying to quit smoking and we drank white wine from Mason jars,...”
– All That’s Left To Tell, Clementine von Radics (via clementinevonradics)
May 9th
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May 9th
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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Preface to Jane Eyre (2nd ed.)
May 9th
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