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Mary Oliver, from “Dogfish”

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You don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story–– a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to swim through the fires to stay in this world.

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#mary oliver #dogfish

Mary Oliver, from “Starlings in Winter”

I am thinking now of grief, and of getting past it;

I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

#mary oliver #starlings in winter

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“Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educated men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women—in the face of tremendous resistance—as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.”

— Audre Lorde, from The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House (via wishbzne)

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written 25 years ago and yet couldn’t be more true today

bell hooks, in “Killing Rage: Ending Racism”

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Jenny Holzer Inflammatory Essays (excerpt) 1979–82 Offset lithograph on colored paper Published by the artist; printed by Millner Bros., New York Each sheet: 17" x 17"

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James Baldwin

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audre lorde, “uses of the erotic”, sister outsider: essays and speeches

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“The Anatomy of Melancholy” by Laura Makabresku, self-portrait, 2020

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By Sylvia Legris

#sylvia legris

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Ross Gay, from The Book of Delights

#ross gay #the book of delights

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu // Anne Carson, “The Albertine Workout”

("C'est terrible. Parce que maintenant que vous me possedez un peu, vous me voulez.")

#portrait de la jeune fille en feu #portrait of a lady on fire #anne carson #marcel proust #portrait proust #the albertine workout

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu // Anne Carson, “The Albertine Workout”

“Knowledge of other people is unendurable.”

(The truth about [Marianne] is that close)

#portrait de la jeune fille en feu #portrait of a lady on fire #marcel proust #anne carson #portrait proust

1. Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Sciamma, 2019) 2. À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (Proust, 1919)

This can’t be a coincidence? Consider:

A neat 100 year gap between the two

“À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs“ (transl. “in the shade of flowering girls”) is the second volume of Proust’s 7-volume “À la recherche du temps perdu“ (“in search of lost time”).

I am no Proust expert, but this ^ book is where the narrator meets Albertine, a known lesbian per Anne Carson’s “The Albertine Workout”

Adèle talks about reading Proust in this interview in a fascinating way (preparing for character roles)

#portrait de la jeune fille en feu #portrait of a lady on fire #marcel proust #celine sciamma #portrait proust