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andrumedus · 2 years

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I would never tie you down, not even with garlands of roses. I don't want anything from you that doesn't come from your own impulse, like water from the springs.

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XLVI”

#literature #poetry #dulce maría loynaz #absolute solitude: selected poems #lovers at the edge of eros #cuban lit #m #x

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malaisequotes · 6 months

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“I love you so much I sometimes fear God will punish me one day by filling my life with you.”

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems by Dulce María Loynaz, translated by James O'Connor

#Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems #James O'Connor #Dulce María Loynaz #Quote #Poetry

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feral-ballad · 3 months

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Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “Your hands have a strange clarity. Have you been walking among the stars?”]

#dulce maría loynaz #hands #tenderness #love #stars #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #poetry collection #typography

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crushing-on-nico-di-angelo · 1 year

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and I'm sorry I left, but it was for the best my little dove...

absolute solitude: selected poems, dulce maria loynaz (tr. james o'connor) // the glass essay, anne carson // boyish, japanese breakfast // @uglyfruit // yves olade // hunger, harry styles // a not admitting of the wound, emily dickinson // no surprises, radiohead // fourth of july, sufjan stevens

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typewriter-worries · 2 years

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i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor ( @feral-ballad ) | Farewell, Arthur Hacker | Death Wish, Josh Alex Baker | L’Amore, la Morte e Il Sogno, Roberto Ferri | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | The Fall (detail), Alan Stephens Foster | The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar, Danez Smith | Scene of Deluge (detail), Joseph-Désiré Court

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lunamonchtuna · 1 year

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— Dulce Maria Loynaz (tr. james o'connor), from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

#dark aesthetic #poetry #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #book quotes #light academia #quotes #dark academic #lovecore #romantic academia

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padmestrilogy · 6 months

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devotion

attack of the clones (2002) / absolute solitude: selected poems, dulce maría loynaz, trans. by james o’connor / revenge of the sith (2005) / emily dickinson / gabriela mistral / rots, cont. / “to the desert”, benjamin alire sáenz / emil melmoth / steven spielberg to roger ebert / rots, cont. / “carolina”, taylor swift

insp.

#every ‘anakin obscures padme’ moment i could find!#padme amidala #anakin skywalker #anidala #web weaving #star wars parallels #revenge of the sith #attack of the clones #star wars #prequel trilogy #star wars edit

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elvendeity · 1 year

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"I didn't fall in love with you. I walked into love with you, with my eyes wide open, choosing to take every step along the way. I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we'd choose anyway. And I'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I'd find you and I'd choose you"

I just want someone to grab my little face and scream "ON PURPOSE, ON PURPOSE I AM GOING TO CARE ABOUT YOU"

Chidi Anagonye : Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't... real, are they?

Michael : Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know. But I don't think so.

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Michael : If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship.

Anne Carson, Euripides || Dulce María Loynaz, from “Poem XCI,” trans. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Prose Poems (First Archipelago, 2016) || Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars || Russian Doll, Season 2 || Jenny Slate || Dead Poets Society || The Good Place || Death with Interruptions, José Saramago || Russian Doll, Season 1

#Anne Carson #Euripides #Dulce María Loynaz #Kiersten White #The Chaos of Stars #Russian Doll #Jenny Slate #Dead Poets Society #The Good Place #Death with Interruptions #José Saramago #web weavings #web weaving #web weave #parallelism #parallel #parallels #i choose you #love is a choice

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undinesea · 3 months

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Does my sweetness lie so deep within me you need to cut me to find it?

Dulce María Loynaz, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

#dulce maría loynaz #poetry

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emiliosandozsequence · 3 months

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requested by @crystalclrs

the borgias (2011-2013) cr. neil jordan / no exit and three other plays, 'the flies', jean-paul sartre / bone, yrsa daley-ward / carmilla, joseph sheridan le fanu / a literate passion: letters of anaïs nin & henry iller 1932-1953, henry miller / absolute solitude: selected poems, 'lxxxiii', dulce maría loynaz / granted, 'in tennesse i found a firefly', mary szybist / romance or the end, elaine kahn / henry and june: from 'a journal of love', the unexpurgated diary (1931-1932), henry miller / pine to sound, nancy kuhl / hiroshima mon amour, marguerite duras / autobiography of red, anne carson / plainwater: essays and poetry, 'canicula di anna', anne carson / the selected plays of hélène cixous, 'the perjured city', hélène cixous / half light: collected poems 1965-2016, 'elegy', frank bidart / the sorrow festival, erin slaughter / melancholia, 'seventeen', dc de oliveira / white is for witching, helen oyeyemi / postcolonial love poem, natalie diaz / wuthering heights, emily brontë / the caged owl: new and selected poems, 'going out', gregory orr

#the borgias #theborgiasedit #cesare borgia #lucrezia borgia #cesare x lucrezia #francois arnaud #holliday grainger #mine #mww #tbww #comparative #comparatives #web weaves #web weaving #web weavings #web weave

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seemeunseelie · 16 days

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‘LIX’ from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems (2016), by Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor | Kate McGahan (unknown origin) | starpeace | ‘I Cannot Be Known’ from Selected Poems by Paul Eluard (1936), tr. Gilbert Bowen (1988) | Norwegian Wood (1987), by Haruki Murakami | ‘Walking Home’ from Magdalene (2017), by Marie Howe | Ruin and Rising (2014), Leigh Bardugo | ‘Soul Mates’ from Love and Misadventure (2013), by Lang Leav | Gabriela Mistral, from a letter to Doris Dana (c.1950), tr. Velma García-Gorena | I Origins (2014), dir Mike Cahill |‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’ from Original Sin (1989), Jim Steinman | ‘All Things End’ from Unreal Unearth (2023), Hozier | all other images taken from Baldur's Gate 3 (Larian Studios)

#baldur's gate 3 #BG3 #durge #durgetash #gortash x durge #enver gortash #webweaving #hadrian #mine

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andrumedus · 2 years

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I ask myself what I will do here on earth with this worthless, defiant body. And I hear my body answer: —What will I do with this spark that believed itself the sun and this breath that believed itself the wind?

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. James O’Connor, Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; “XXXII”

#literature #poetry #dulce maría loynaz #absolute solitude: selected poems #i have known my body as a plexus of river #a brief inquiry #cuban lit #m #x

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petaltexturedskies · 6 months

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Dulce María Loynaz, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems; "CXLXVII" (tr. James O'Connor)

#dulce maría loynaz #autumn #typography #sadness

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feral-ballad · 1 year

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Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

[Text ID: “There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”]

#dulce maría loynaz #tenderness #weary #exhaustion #excerpts #writings #literature #poetry #fragments #selections #words #quotes #typography #poetry collection #poetry in translation #spanish literature #spanish poetry

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yuuuhiii · 23 hours

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Hellloo! Here for your even! Can this match-up happen in JJK?

How about a reader who is very selective with their peers but hold those people very dear. They're also a big bookworm and astronomy nerd so do with what you can! They're also concious of being left behind and alone and wouldn't show it, thus would constantly do everything to help and be kind under a perfectionist but reassuring chatacter.

I hope this isn't too confusing! Thank you for reading this request!

I match you with KENTO NANAMI

Kento holds you to a high standard in his books. You’re wife material really, however, he thinks maybe he’ll talk about that another time.

You guys are alike in many ways but different as well. He values your self-proclaimed flaws even though he tells you you're perfect.

Both of your guy's groups are small, having been in that group for most of high school both of you grew and learned to keep it small. Losing people or just being careful with who to bring around was helpful for both of you.

Kento feeds your reading obsession. If you guys aren't home then you're in a cafe or library. He spoils you to the absolute max.

You mentioned a book sounded interesting? It's wrapped with a ribbon on your bed.

Do you stare at a ring for more than a couple seconds? It's your new promise ring.

You scold him about his tendencies but he always says the same thing. “I'm just pampering the woman who holds my heart.”

Now other than the libraries and cafes you guys are at observatories. Or even out where you have a full view of the night sky and shimmering stars.

More times than not, he falls asleep to your voice, explaining to him which constellation is which. Your fingers trace the structure onto his bare skin.

He thinks you're the prettiest like this. The moonlight illuminating your features enough that you resemble a star yourself.

He tells you all the time you'd be the sun. Since you've always seemed to brighten his day every waking moment.

When he misses you and he's away at work he knows where to look. While it's day, he treasures how bright it is. While it's night, he admires the stars.

Kento knows what it’s like to feel and be alone. He’s always enjoyed solitude, although meeting you has changed him. Now when you aren’t with him he finds himself counting down the hours until he’ll be with you again.

He wonders if when your wedding day arrives he’d be able to access a sample of the moon in your ring. Just so he can prove it when he tells you he loves you to the moon and back. He remembers a poem you wrote, you said it was of him.

“Like the moon. Everyone admires me. But I’m always alone.”

He thinks back to it and he brings it up to you now. He tells you that if he’s the moon then you’re the sun and that doesn't make him alone. Because his life revolves around you.

Without him there’d be no moonlight.

And without you, there’d be no gravity to ground him.

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hauntedbythenarrative · 2 years

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How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

The Complete Poems; “The Sickness Unto Death”, Anne Sexton//Jean Baudrillard//Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz//Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky//Alex Venezia//La Femme de trente ans, Honoré de Balzac//War of the foxes, Richard Siken

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