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““The moon is always jealous of the heat of the day, just as the sun always longs for something dark and deep.””

— Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic (via writeswithafist)

“One of the joys of being a dog is that they have no concept of the word “future.” Everything is right now, and if right now happens to be a warm floor and a full stomach, then life is good.”

— Jonathan Carroll, The Ghost in Love

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“Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again.”

— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls

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“If you must suffer, suffer nobly. Love, laugh through your tears, or cry, create and perhaps, perish.”

— Allen Ginsberg, from a journal entry in The Book of Martyrdom & Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-52

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“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever…”

John Keats

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Mary Shelley, from a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814) / Joanna Newsom - “Only Skin” (2006)

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Preraphaelites & Plath ~

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Text: Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" (1965)

Images:

1. John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851-52)

2. John Everett Millais, The Martyr of Solway

3. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Aurelia (Fazio's Mistress) (1863, reworked 1873)

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[ID: excerpt from “Two-Headed Poems; Solstice Poem,” Margaret Atwood

I would like to tell her, Love is enough, I would like to say, Find shelter in another skin. I would like to say, Dance and be happy. Instead I will say in my crone’s voice, Be ruthless when you have to, tell the truth when you can, when you can see it.’]