[beguines]

Eliza Griswold, Wideawake Field

[kathyack-blog-blog]

(from Don Quixote)

[mariannekhalil]

slow morning

[rozieramati]

via

[witchrealms]

(x)

[killyohji]

“…Words Mean Nothing at All”, 2012 Yoshitomo Nara

[courteous]

opening to chapter 32 of The Master and Margarita through the years & through translations

Mirra Ginsburg (1967)

Michael Glenny (1967)

Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor (1993)

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (1997)

Hugh Aplin (2008)

[courteous]

Tsvetaeva noted this quality of his verse in her 1932 essay "Epic and Lyric in Contemporary Russia" ("Epos i lirika sovremennoi Rossii"):

Mayakovsky is the I-in-everything. . . . Mayakovsky is the conversion of self into object, the dissolution of self in object. . . . Mayakovsky is faceless; he became the thing he was depicting. Mayakovsky as a noun is collective. . . . Mayakovsky represents the impossibility of not merging with one's surroundings.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky: Selected Poems, translation and introduction by James H. McGavran III

[jalylah]

“NYT: What books are you embarrassed not to have read yet? TEJU COLE: I have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones for that matter. But this does not embarrass me. There are many films to see, many friends to visit, many walks to take, many playlists to assemble and many favorite books to reread. Life’s too short for anxious score-keeping. Also, my grandmother is illiterate, and she’s one of the best people I know. Reading is a deep personal consolation for me, but other things console, too.”

— Teju Cole, “Teju Cole: By The Book” A New York Times Q&A, March 6, 2014

[papayajuan2019]

in of body experience

[gayrobot9000]

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[gayrobot9000]

i'm a girl now

[dykeseyelmao]

YOU WILL OPEN UP YOUR PHONE ONE DAY IN 5 YEARS AND GO: THERE WAS A GIRL I KNEW JUST 17. MAYBE MY SPECIAL SECRET SICKNESS WASN'T A DEALBREAKER. MAYBE I WAS LOVABLE FROM THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. I ATE THROUGH THE STRIFES OF MY LIFE LIKE A SWALLOWTAIL CATERPILLAR ON DILL. I CAN LOOK IN A PEER'S EYES AND RECOGNIZE A GENUINE CONNECTION. EVERY GESTURE I SHARE OUT IN THE WORLD IS RETURNED TO ME TEN FOLD LIKE A PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINE ECHOING IN AN ENCLOSED CAVERN. MAYBE LIKE THE ACOUSTICS IN THE WITCH'S HAT OF THE WINCHESTER HOUSE. IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME. IT WILL COME BACK TO ME. IT PERPETUATES ITSELF. LOVE PERPETUATES ITSELF. IM ALIVE BY A MIRACULOUS FEAT. I DO NOT NEED TO BE A WARRIOR TO BE HERE. I AM 17 TOO. I AM 17 TOO FOREVER. THERE IS A GIRL I MET ON TUMBLR AND SHE IS 17 FOREVER. SHE REMINDED ME IT WAS ALL SO BEAUTIFUL. I WILL REMIND MYSELF THAT IT IS ALL SO BEAUTIFUL.

[tallahasseemp3]

"Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?"

Eden Robins, Remember You Will Die

[theoceanislikeyou]

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

[blemgoid]

one time a being of pure light & truth appeard to me and started saying some bullshit but i ignored it

[iphigeniacomplex]

Dust by Dorianne Laux

Someone spoke to me last night, told me the truth. Just a few words, but I recognized it. I knew I should make myself get up, write it down, but it was late, and I was exhausted from working all day in the garden, moving rocks. Now, I remember only the flavor — not like food, sweet or sharp. More like a fine powder, like dust. And I wasn’t elated or frightened, but simply rapt, aware. That’s how it is sometimes — God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you’re just too tired to open it.

[nobrashfestivity]

Alexander Rodchenko, Points, Composition 119, 1920 

[badassdemonsword]

[trashmarine]

revolutionary girl utena (shōjo kakumei utena, 1997) / antigone by jean anouilh

[ferrisaircraftian]

[ID: Screencap from Revolutionary Girl Utena with a quote from Antigone displayed over it. Anthy Himemiya leans over Utena Tenjou's shoulder after stabbing her. Ismene's dialogue reads, "Antigone, be reasonable. It's all very well for men to believe in ideas, and to die for them. But you are a girl!" End ID]