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jordan / she/her

[deadpoetwilde]

writing fiction be like i hate my art i love my art i wish i never made art i am a mother i am a child i am projecting my insecurities onto figments of my imagination i am making a self-portrait i don't know myself i am psychoanalyzing myself in the shower i might be the next william shakespeare no one will ever understand me i am a magician of words i am a failure i will be famous! and everyone will love me and especially myself i wrote seven pages today i have been staring at the blinking cursor for two hours without typing a word

[deadpoetwilde]

whenever i feel insignificant i think about the fact that the universe is so vast and endless and infinite to the point where we can't even grasp its very concept ... and yet how intricate and beautifully accidental must it be for mangos to exist and for us to enjoy them and to be aware of the fact that we're enjoying them, or for two people's hands to fit together, or for someone to bake bread for someone else. there is no end to space, and yet we have favorite songs, and we tend to little plants, and we leave our footprints on the sand until the waves wash them away, and we help bees back outside with our silly cups and pieces of paper !! existence is so miraculous & we are here & small & coincidental, and so i love & love & love

[deadpoetwilde]

*uses difficult word i don't actually know the meaning of and hopes the other person doesn't know it either so i sound intelligent*

[deadpoetwilde]

when remco campert said "poetry is an act of affirmation. i affirm that i live, that i do not live alone."

[deadpoetwilde]

i feel like adding that the reason this quote so appeals to me and encapsulates what i think about poetry is because i am convinced that poetry is not and can never be a product of mere solitude. even if you write to express loneliness, the feeling is derived by a certain lack of connection. even if you write only and completely for yourself, you are still writing within the world, you are still writing words that to even be able to weave inside a poem you have had to learn them from other people who have in turn also had to learn them from other people, words of which the precise connotation for you comes from a larger context in which you've heard then being used by those around you. your poetry is a product of so much history, of changes and little evolutions in language, of emotions caused by engaging with the world. and therefore, in poetry, you are never alone with the page. when you write a poem, you are of course expressing your own voice, but you are also expressing the voice of every person, tree, cloud, body of water, grief, animal and piece of art you have come across. poetry is a record of togetherness and of connection.

[deadpoetwilde]

when remco campert said "poetry is an act of affirmation. i affirm that i live, that i do not live alone."

[deadpoetwilde]

i'm so obsessed with the idea of living in a big city where i can choose to be invisible and disappear between the crowds and live for myself and have my favorite little corner in a cafe and go to musea and galleries and appreciate art and architecture for hours uninterrupted and go to all the places where literary figures got inspiration for their poetry and their works and stroll down the streets by myself and look at people who pass by and invent little stories for them in my head and live in a small apartment where i can write by my open window until really late at night and sometimes stop and listen to the bustle of life on the streets below and i can also choose to be part of that bustle myself and part of a circle of artists who share a studio and support each other and go to social gatherings where i meet people who are as passionate about art and poetry as i am and exchange ideas and be inspired and have specific corners and monuments and cafes where we gather, and hold symposia stuffed in someone's tiny apartment and in general live as an active part of the urban creative scene ??? just ,,, living in a city where i get to see the entire assembled past and present existence of humanity ???

[gaysie]

footnote to howl makes me crazy. thank you mister ginsberg

[deadpoetwilde]

well well well if it isn't the toppling amount of books in my room i've been trying to ignore because i bought them two years ago and haven't read them yet

[deadpoetwilde]

It’s a little on the ridiculous side, but every time I see your profile I automatically think “Hmmm. Oscar Wilde.” and then, “Perhaps I will challenge God.”

I just thought you should know.

these are the only thoughts i wish to provoke with my blog, thank you

[deadpoetwilde]

like yeah i read poetry to understand rigorous analyses written by scholars who study a poet's work for the majority of their lives and draw conclusions based upon meticulous understanding of said poet in which they demonstrate the complexity of human existence and the profundity of human emotion but mainly i read poetry because i'm sexy and cool

[actual-intellectual]

chameleons just be out there

[deadpoetwilde]

every day i log onto tumblr dot com and read mary oliver and richard siken poetry excerpts and cry

[local-deadpoet-deactivated20260]

i would love to carpe diem but i also have anxiety

[deadpoetwilde]

todd anderson

[deadpoetwilde]

oh to stroll through the old part of the city center wearing a long coat with a cup of coffee and a small volume of beat poetry looking for a bookstore to lose yourself in or a cozy corner to sit and write or just aimlessly admiring the architecture and making mysterious disappearances around street corners ,,, i miss it

[rancidtofu]

“𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭.”

[deadpoetwilde]

let's talk about shirley (2020)??? 50s typewriter & cigarettes dark academia aesthetic, centered around women and literature, lowkey homoerotic, and, most importantly, features elizabeth moss

[princesskuragina]

My "friend" told me she found war and peace boring. Should I block her or feed her drain cleaner?

I think you should enjoy a nice cup of some calming chamomile tea

[princesskuragina]

Loving the people being elitist in the notes of this vs all my w&p friends being like "no actually it is boring"

[deadpoetwilde]

if i may add, there's that great post about how you really don't have to like all classic books just because they're considered classics; i think it would be rather fitting here. not liking tolstoy doesn't make you stupid or even less of a literature lover than someone who has all of his books memorized! just because a piece of art is considered "objectively" timeless or genius really doesn't mean you have to like it. moreover, why would you spend time reading a book (or occupying yourself with any type of art) you find boring just to be able to say you've read it when there are thousands of books out there that might shake you to the core with wonder? the world is so delightful because of the abundance of opinions on art, because everyone creates and appreciates different things. let's not kill that!