hung in the scales with beauty & atrocity

[byronicist]

prose, verse, poetry, lyrics

visual art: @whoreofhorus

current pfp: poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

current bio/header quote: Seamus Heaney's The Grauballe Man

follows from @abracazabka

[feral-ballad]

Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; "Telemachus' Detachment"

[Text ID: "When I was a child looking / at my parents' lives, you know / what I thought? I thought / heartbreaking. Now I think / heartbreaking, but also / insane. Also / very funny."]

[existential-celestial]

“I will love you if you don’t marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else…and I will love you if you have a child, and I will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more…and I will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights I prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios I have mentioned…I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”

— The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket

[seekingstars]

HOW’S THAT HOUSE THAT RAISED YOU? - Lev St. Valentine

[00828a]

“Her eyes are extraordinarily pure and beautiful, but she has the cold quality of a mermaid. I am sure you would like her. She scares me to death.”

— Tennessee Williams, from a letter to Donald Windham c. July 1947 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[elizabethsinclair]

elizabeth s.

[mervynbunter]

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

[leonardcohenofficial]

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of h

yearly required reading

[pintsandparapets]

A scrapped illustration for Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892).

[nixscriptum]

[women-loving-art]

“Another kind of courage. The courage to be repulsive. Everyone should have been through it, in any case, everyone will have to go through it.”

— Claude Cahun, from Aveux non avenus (Disavowals), 1930, tr. Susan de Muth

[kafk-a]

Nancy Willard, from “Questions My Son Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Him”

[mournfulroses]

Richard Siken, from a poem titled "Drug Plane," featured in I Do Know Some Things: Poems

[nixscriptum]

[thehappysmiler]

[thehappysmiler]

favorites

[unforth]

[sic-semper-hominibus]

[duckingwriting]

[duckingwriting]

This thread lives rent free in my brain. And randomly came across my FB feed so of course I had to dig it up out of my Tumblr to share what fb shared.

[notemily]

I like this one

[jamesmirandabarry]

a poem by a female fag about being a man dyke

[boykeats]

do you have any favourite love letters from the past?

“You have fixed my Life – however short,” Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia” / “Throw over your man, I say, and come,” Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

“Love is my religion – I could die for that, I could die for you,” John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days,” Oscar Wilde to Alfred Lord Douglas