inspo dump

poetry, inspiration and writing ref

[weltenwellen]

Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[ultrawistful]

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[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

[mournfulroses]

Trista Mateer, from a poem featured in her collection titled The Dogs I Have Kissed

[lilllium]

Sierra DeMulder, from “Your Love Finds Its Way Back” // @holly-warbs // Oasis, Wonderwall // Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. by Eavan Boland, from “Departure from England,” // Let me feel low, Cavetown // @holly-warbs // Samiha Totanji // Bob Newhart // Push, Matchbox Twenty

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, "Howl", Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “Even If”, Instructions for Traveling West

[mournfulroses]

Ji Xian, from a poem titled "Your Name," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

[mournfulroses]

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from “The Dream of a Ridiculous Man,” written in 1877

[mournfulroses]

Catherynne M. Valente, from her novel titled "Deathless," originally published in 2011

[girlfictions]

Ella Risbridger, from In The Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

[lilllium]

Susan Sontag // Longing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe // Study for Night Reading, 2020 by Aron Wiesenfeld // The Mermaid chair, Sue Monk Kidd // Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems; “Magdalene— The Seven Devils" @feral-ballad // A Life of Longing, Lora Colon // Twilight, Sergei A. Tutunov // Natalie Wee, Our Bodies and Other Fine Machines

[lilllium]

—Roxane Beth Johnson, from Blues For Almsot Forgotten Music

[martyrborne]

Devotion: profound dedication, loyalty, or love for a person, activity, or cause.

To love like a dog. To give everything and receive nothing but table scraps. To always want more.

[ololygas]

Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker

[ololygas]

variations on a theme by elizabeth bishop, john murillo

[ololygas]

wait, galway kinnell