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[lifeinpoetry]

in an expanse scrubbed clean of borders our bodies roam unbeaten unshot

Safia Elhillo, from “Scenes from the Concluding World,” published in Winter Tangerine (via lifeinpoetry)

[lifeinpoetry]

Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What’s the problem? Studies suggest it’s best the help reply My pleasure and not No problem. Studies suggest it’s best not to mention problem in front of power even to say there is none. Gloria Steinem says women lose power as they age and yet the loudest voice in my head is my mother. Studies show the mother we have in mind isn’t the mother that exists. Mine says: What the fuck are you crying for? Studies show the baby monkey will pick the fake monkey with fake fur over the furless wire monkey with milk, without contest. Studies show to negate something is to think it anyway. I’m not sad. I’m not sad. Studies recommend regular expressions of gratitude and internal check-ins. Enough, the wire mother says. History is a kind of study. History says we forgave the executioner. Before we mopped the blood we asked: Lord Judge, have I executed well? Studies suggest yes. What the fuck are you crying for, officer? the wire mother teaches me to say, while studies suggest Solmaz, have you thanked your executioner today?

— Solmaz Sharif, “Social Skills Training,” published in Buzzfeed

[gilliancharlotte]

Which is better cheap happiness or sublime suffering?

Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (via almosttransparentblue)

[sfmoma]

[lifeinpoetry]

Thesis: I swallow a bee for each ill deed done. I am a hive walking. I strain to hear you over the regret.

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, from “A Field of Onions: Brown Study,” published in Waxwing (via lifeinpoetry)

[quotemadness]

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

Mahbod Seraji  (via horrorshow)

[neoyorzapoteca]

Margaret Atwood | The Female Body

[antipathicc]

Here Are Your Results Details: Dating Strengths Explained Appearance - Despite what some will say, appearance matters in dating. You get high marks on appearance. Just make sure you balance it out with other qualities. Flirtiness - Flirting is a good way to break the ice, and you are a pro at it. Being flirtatious will open up many dating opportunities. Adventurousness - You are willing to try new things and be spontaneous. You want to get out there and really live, and you will attract people with a similar love of life. Confidence - You are sure of yourself and confident of your abilities. Displays of confidence go a long way when attracting a date. Sense of Humor - Men are attracted to people with a good sense of humor. Be sure to put yours on display! Dating Weaknesses Explained Vanity - Learn to put a lower priority on looks. Appearance is, of course, important, but vanity is undesireable. The only people you will attract are the superficial. Negative Reputation - Your reputation may be working against you. Sometimes this is impossible to control, but try to counter-act it by presenting yourself in positive ways. Selfishness - You think too much of yourself and your needs. You must learn to put your partner first and tend to his needs. Arrogance - You are a bit full of yourself. You need to practice a little humility now and then, as arrogance can be a turn-off. Pessimism - Too much cynicism can be a turn-off. Try to see the brighter side of things and people will be attracted to your positive outlook.

[zielenadel]

Il me faut tout oublier (I must forget everything) . Philippe Vandenberg

[gnossienne]

[…]history is looking less like an arc tending towards justice and more like a series of cycles: from enlightenment and progress, through a crash, war or disaster, back to superstition and authoritarianism. It is a grave mistake to miss the signs, to parry anxieties with confident assumptions that once progress has been made it cannot be unmade.

Homophobia is back – it’s no accident that nationalism is too (via horrorshow)

[larmoyante]

I know what it’s like when people go away. It’s agony for a week, then painful for a week, then you begin to forget, and then it seems as if it never happened, it happened to someone else, and you start shrugging. You say, dingo it’s life, that’s the way things are. Stupid things like that. As if you haven’t really lost something forever.

John Fowles, The Magus (via larmoyante)

[adrasteiax]

(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me: he withdrew he went too far into solitude and knew — he must’ve known — you never come back from there

Alejandra Pizarnik, from Psychopathology Ward in “Extracting The Stone Of Madness: Poems” [translated by Yvette Siegert] (via horrorshow)

[luthienne]

I feel cut off from all human kind—but I am not sad to-day.

Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to J.M. Murry (via horrorshow)

[adrasteiax]

(…) what happened (to Kafka) is the same as what happened to me: he withdrew he went too far into solitude and knew — he must’ve known — you never come back from there

Alejandra Pizarnik, from Psychopathology Ward in “Extracting The Stone Of Madness: Poems” [translated by Yvette Siegert] (via horrorshow)

[vesselsofmercy]

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted.”

– Louise Glück, from American Originality: Essays on Poetry; “Ten Introductions: Radial Symmetry/Katherine Larson,”

[dvkev-alentino]

I want passion and pleasure and noise and drunkenness and all evil.

Anais Nin, Henry and June (via kvngslayer)

[luthienne]

My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (via horaetio)