no.026

darling, darling, doesn't have a problem lying to herself because her liquor's top shelf The monochrome blog. Occasionally has (tagged) nsfw posts.

[luthienne]

Camille Norton, Corruption: Poems

[fearlastyear]

“….Who wouldn’t want you? Whose most demonic appetite could you possibly fail to answer?”

— Louise Glück, from “Persephone’s Song“ (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

Do you regret your life?

Even before I was touched, I belonged to you; you had only to look at me.

— Louise Glück, from “The Burning Heart,” Poems 1962-2012

[fearlastyear]

—Natasha Trethewey, “Myth” 

[derangedrhythms]

Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles; from ‘From the Japanese’

[fearlastyear]

“That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer and I did not die.”

— Mary Oliver, from Heavy in “Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver” (via adrasteiax)

[cdnsongbirdme]

"And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?"

― Franz Wright, God's Silence (Knopf, 2006)

[lifeinpoetry]

Do you believe me if I say I only ever wanted to be worthy of my father’s grief? Of the kind of obsession that nearly drowns us?

— Julian Randall, from “Icarus Imposter Syndrome,” Refuse

[hiddenshores]

“You hold an absence

at your center,

as if it were a life.”

— Richard Brostoff, from “Grief”

[derangedrhythms]

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.

Sylvia Plath, Ariel; from 'The Moon and the Yew Tree'

[derangedrhythms]

Being with you or without you is how I measure my time.

Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand; The Gold of the Tigers, from ‘The threatened one’ tr. Alastair Reid

[fearlastyear]

—Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

[candiedspit]

ON COMPLIANCE

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

[quotemadness]

“A lot of people tell me I’m a bit dreamy. But I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.”

— Alex Turner 

[inspirinquotes]

[paristandard]

[escape-while-you-can]

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