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sacredwhores

Éric Rohmer - Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987)

vivalasigh

Jericho Brown, "To Be Asked for a Kiss"

#Anne Sexton #Jericho Brown #text

funeral

Au hasard Bresson (1967) dir. Theodor Kotulla

apocryphics

Borges, “A Writer’s Destiny”

#jorge luis borges

kvothes

marie howe, in an interview with krista tippett of on being

kvothes

from marie howe’s 2017 collection of poetry, magdalene

sunpdf

keith haring, oct 14 1978 // here’s something they don’t tell you about flower arranging //ad reinhardt, how to look

eyeofpsyche

lilfrewtloop-deactivated2026050

true auteur shit

apocryphics

Borges, “A Writer’s Destiny”

enflurane

anne carson

weltenwellen

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, "Extracting the Stone of Madness", Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

women-loving-art

"Pero no hables de los jardines, no hables de la luna, no hables de la rosa, no hables del mar. Habla de lo que sabes. Habla de lo que vibra en tu médula y hace luces y sombras en tu mirada, habla del dolor incesante de tus huesos, habla del vértigo, habla de tu respiración, de tu desolación, de tu traición. Es tan oscuro, tan en silencio el proceso a que me obligo. Oh habla del silencio." — Extracción de la piedra de la locura

brechtian

oh god it must feel insane to play guildenstern every night and say that line at the end "There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said--no. But somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time." Like an audience only has to see it play out once but as that actor every single night for months you have to watch this character re-forget and make the same choices and fight against the same tide towards the inevitable conclusion and swear that there's a way to do it differently next time. rinse repeat.

cymae-mesa

In the Globe's recent Titus Andronicus every character carries a candle representing their life. Those candles end up getting snapped and smashed and cut up on so many ways.... And then carried into the candle making vat which is on stage at all times to be turned into the candles which will be used in the next performance.

One of the most powerful images of inevitably and cyclical violence I've ever seen.

soracities

“Writing is writing what you cannot know before you have written: it is preknowing and not knowing, blindly, with words. It occurs at the point where blindness and light meet.”

— Hélène Cixous, from Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (tr. by Susan Sellers) (via xshayarsha)