drunk on poetry

they/she | book excerpts and reblogs

[charybdissmal]

"You can burn libraries, ban books, boycott scholars, and blacklist intellectuals, but you cannot blot out ideas".

- Matshona Dhliwayo

[girlfictions]

Mary Oliver, from On Meditating, Sort Of

[charybdissmal]

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend. If Astrophage is your enemy, I’m your friend.”

- Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)

[charybdissmal]

"I have a pen, but no paper. That’s okay—I have a wall."

- Ryland Grace, Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)

[charybdissmal]

Where will it all end? Half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.

- Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

[charybdissmal]

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

[charybdissmal]

Is it not strange that grief should quickly follow so divine a happiness?

- Matilda, Mary Shelley

[charybdissmal]

"Most days, we'd rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

[charybdissmal]

"The popular mind wants quick results; it will sacrifice tomorrow's real benefit for today's apparent advantage."

- Hans Morgenthau, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

[lunamonchtuna]

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

[charybdissmal]

Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[charybdissmal]

"Sometimes I'm ancient. I'm afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Did it always used to be that way?"

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[charybdissmal]

"I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it."

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[twinsfawn]

i died like 5 years ago my body just kept going

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from her book titled "Hekate: the Witch: Poems", published in 2025

[goth-queen]

[thecatholicseamstress17129]

Show idea: magical girl group but each girl is based on one of the seven heavenly virtues

[elgringo300-deactivated20260512]

ok so turns out this already exists and it was written in the fifth century AD

[elgringo300-deactivated20260512]

they have their own weapons and everything