“But some part of a good reader of poetry understands that closure, for human beings, is a construct, not a reality, and the resonance that might frustrate some is ultimately more authoritative because more expressive of what it means to be human, for better and for worse.”
— Carl Phillips, from “The Art of Daring | Risk, Restlessness, Imagination” (Graywolf Press, 2014)
77, ee cummings
Come here.
The Rookie
@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
nell and edward 1x13not subtle yetnot just yet
“i want him” i say about the most deranged, vile, downright monstrous fictional men ever created
“Unseen, precious, secret things,”
— Georg Trakl, from Poems: Bilingual Edition; “Mary Magdalene: A Dialogue,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Fady Joudah, from the poetry collection [...], excerpt pub. The Yale Review [ID']
Paris - July 3rd, 2011
Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Orchard
Sometimes when we think we are dying, we are actually rebirthing. Sometimes when things are quiet and not moving forward, a kind of inertia, new life is cocooning and emerging. Don’t give up. Trust the process. —India Ame’ye
dune (2021), dir. denis villeneuve / dune: part two (2024), dir. denis villeneuve / i have more souls than one, fernando pessoa / @dvoyd / erica jong, from becoming light: poems new & selected / ptolemaea, ethel cain / h of h playbook, anne carson / anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson / “the war of vaslav nijinsky”; half-light: collected poems 1965-2016, frank bidart / the gods show up, michael kinnucan
“Construct, within the heart, mystical cathedrals.”
— Iwan Gilkin, from “Litanies and Prayer,” written c. February 1885 (via violentwavesofemotion)
Passing the stars
the death of paul atreides // the pieta - michaelangelo
L.M. Montgomery, from Chronicles of Avonlea