We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.
Richard Siken, Snow and Dirty Rain. (via 21jumpstreet-jax)
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the haunted forest
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You know what day it is. #manslaughtermonday #stopcatcalling #notyours #neverwas
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Seven Deadly Sins: A Playlist
“I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.
Justice caused my high architect to move,
Divine omnipotence created me,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me there were no created things
But those that last forever—as do I.
Abandon all hope you who enter here.”
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“When she walked through the Rose Garden, its heavy, dove-gray air, dizzy with something unbreathable There was something moist about her, a dare, a rage, an intolerable tenderness.”
— Mary Szybist, “Annunciation in Nabokov and Starr,” in Incarnadine: Poems
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“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
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“The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.”
— Vladimir Nabokov - from Pale Fire
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Odysseus Elytis, tr. by Athan Anagnostopoulos, from “Maria Nephele: A Poem In Two,”
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Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia N. Dickinson wr. c. April 1860
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I want you to understand how chaotic, loud and inhuman my brain is,
But my darling, I wouldn't want to make you feel so insane.
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I am a very voracious person. And I believe hunger is all. I am not ashamed of being hungry. Don't you think life is the hunger to love?
Victoria Ocampo, in a letter to Virginia Woolf (1935)
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till death do we part.
source: @musterni-illustrates
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Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, episode 4 “Crazy Diamond” (2017)
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