“James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78”, An Interview by Jordan Elgrably
god is hiding in between the pages of your favorite book that you haven't read yet and when you're done god will hide in another
Anne Carson, from Antigonick
Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems
Most experiences are unsayable; they become real to us in a space no word has entered.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet (tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
The two times i loved you the most in a car thursday
you understand.
Tony Hoagland, Application for Release from the Dream: Poems; "Crazy Motherfucker Weather" / Jorie Graham, "Scirocco"
How could we forget the myths about dragons who at the last moment transform into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses waiting to see us act just once with courage.
Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet (tr. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
“As June runs into warm July I think of little else but you.”
— Wendy Cope, excerpt of “From June to December” (A Summer Villanelle)
Anonymous asked:
hi I really don't expect an answer to this but I am finding myself in a similar position where I have been sick for a long time and feeling lonely also. Wishing you all the best with treatment and please know you definitely are not alone even though we don't know each other. I hope your year ahead is beautiful.
holding you in my heart anon — and fervently wishing all the best for you <333
shooting me in the heart would’ve been easier but okay
“That’s true and it’s unfair to laugh at the lead singer in the opera who sings an aria while lying on the stage, mortally wounded. We lie on the ground and sing for years.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
i’m like touch starved but for a river
Octavio Paz, tr. by Elizabeth Bishop, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987
[ID: a wikipedia article about "prophetic perfect tense". it reads, "the prophetic perfect tense is a literary technique used in the bible that describes future events that are so certain to happen that they are referred to in the past tense as if they had already happened." below is a timeline diagram illustrating the point of the text. there are two markings, one at the left marking "time prediction is made" and the other at the middle marking "prediction is fulfilled". there is a yellow arrow that goes from the first marking to the second. there is also an orange arrow that goes from the first marking beyond the second, then circles back to the second marking. it is labelled, "predicted future event described as if past event".
script text, spoken by orestes, that reads "this was always going to happen. she's been dead since the beginning."
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