emptyheadedstalker
“You are still terribly afraid to be hurt; your imaginary sadism shows that. So afraid to be hurt that you want to take the lead and hurt first.”
— Anaïs Nin (via comachild)
“I desperately longed for love, or some proof of my own existence.”
— — Yu Xiuhua, from “My Crazy Love Feels More Like Despair,” Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm tr. Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Ocean Vuong, from Daily Bread, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems: Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); from 'Approximations', tr. Cecilia Rossi
“You cannot make everyone think and feel as deeply as you do. This is your tragedy … because you understand them, and they do not understand you.”
— Daniel Saint
[text ID: And no one can ever figure out what you want, and you won’t tell them. /end ID]
“The fairies have always danced in the blood of the untamed,”
— Michael Rumaker, from “The Fairies are Dancing all over the World,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
heartial
am·bro·sial
/ambrōZH(ē)əl/
adjective exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant. worthy of the gods; divine.
wishbzne-deactivated20210526
emily dickinson [ID: “Oh the Earth was made for lovers,” end ID]
“Most people don’t understand that I did what I did because I was destroying myself.”
— tbh via euphoric-demonss
Source: euphoric-demonss
violentwavesofemotion-deactivat
“She knows / how the dead are seeking their bodies,”
— Ioanna Tsatsou, tr. by Jean Demos, from Collected Poems; “By The Fire,”
violentwavesofemotion-deactivat
“I had to become a ghost, enter my own flesh.”
— Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. March 1993
“Now I warm you with my blood, listen to this flesh. It is far truer than poems.”
— Marina Tsvetaeva, from Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems; Poem of the End.