common poetry

Literature is found everywhere: on magazine covers and in small talk and on shampoo bottles. This blog is dedicated to collection of the poetry of the commoner. It will mostly be self-maintained, but feel free to submit lines and quotes that catch your fancy. They could be from songs, fanfics, conversations - literature isn't exclusive to the contents of master works. Remember to include the source.

[transvioletbaudelaire]

When lemony snicket said “i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. i will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. i will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time. i will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. 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, although I personally think three is plenty, 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. that, beatrice, is how i will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way”

[tropiyas]

“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh

[cerastes]

“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize

[sparkylurkdragon]

“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”

– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

[tarradash]

[spookyscaryskeletitties]

this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

“Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created?”

-Steve Buscemi’s character in Spy Kids 2

[strawbebbynya]

“can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters”

– this incredible post by prokopetz https://prokopetz.tumblr.com/post/170806773262/me-holding-a-gun-to-a-mushroom-tell-me-the-name

[macxjo]

Why do people insist on creating things that will inevitably be destroyed? Why do people cling to life, knowing that they must someday die? …Knowing that none of it will have meant anything once they do?

—Kefka Palazzo, Final Fantasy VI

[common-poetry]

Several years ago I created a blog meant to celebrate quotes like these, unlikely profundity from the last sources you'd expect to be profound. Funny how it's become a meme almost

[vacilandoelmundo]

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.

Madeleine L’Engle (via vacilandoelmundo)

[tiavision]

today my anthro professor said something kindof really beautiful:

"you all have a little bit of ‘I want to save the world’ in you, that’s why you’re here, in college. I want you to know that it’s okay if you only save one person, and it’s okay if that person is you"

[stickybumps-deactivated20160321]

Oh my god. That was incredible.

[rofko-deactivated20150430]

my thoughts cannot move an inch without bumping into some piece of you

A quote I found written on a newspaper on a train the other day (via quiettea)

[housecatincarnate]

And all shall fade, the flowers of Spring. The world and all the sorrow at the heart of everything. And still it stays, the butterfly sings, and opens Purple Summer with that flutter of its wings.

Spring Awakening (via housecatincarnate)

[circlevoyage]

You think you’re any different from me, or your friends, or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We’re all living together, even if most folks don’t act like it. We all have the same roots, and we are all branches of the same tree.

— Huu, Avatar: The Last Airbender.

[indigogypsies]

Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

E.E. Cummings (via austerelly)

[common-poetry]

Remember that at your smallest components, you are indistinguishable from a forest fire.

Night Vale podcast

[common-poetry]

The universe hangs by such a delicate thread of coincidences.

Eighth Doctor, Doctor Who

[common-poetry]

But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast gets eaten by the play There’s a murderer at the Matinee, there are dead men in the aisles And the patrons and actors too are uncertain if the show is through And with side-long looks await their cue but the frozen mask just smiles.

This Vicious Cabaret by David J (via common-poetry)

[common-poetry]

“So if you care to find me Look to the western sky As someone told me lately Everyone deserves a chance to fly! And if I’m flying solo At least I’m flying free To those who ground me Take a message back from me— Tell them how I am defying gravity!”

Elphaba Thropp, Defying Gravity from Wicked: The Musical (via common-poetry)

[common-poetry]

It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.

Tohno Takaki, 5 Centimetres Per Second (via common-poetry)

[common-poetry]

It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.

Hugh Laurie

[common-poetry]

We are each made of space debris, exploding outward from the centre of history.

@NightValeRadio

[common-poetry]

But Alfred does not want to kill, and he does not want to die. He does not want these coloured chains or this metal anchor; he does not want this trampled ground and this red sky. Alfred wants that blue afternoon by a river, he wants that white night in a forgotten barn. But now his days are red and his nights are black, and his Redcoat Lion is not here to find him. Yet still Alfred believes in fate, and he believes in destiny, because when nothing makes sense you have to believe in something.

Blue, White, Red by George DeValier

[22drunkb]

The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present.

Cecil Baldwin, Welcome to Night Vale Ep. 12, “The Candidate” (via hushthenoise)