A Dose Of My Diary

• The doors of heaven and hell are identical •

[enchantedbook]

'Forest Ghost' by Alfred Kubin, 1923.

[enchantedbook]

"Cats being instructed in the art of Mouse-catching by an Owl" By an unknown artist of the Lombard School, circa 1700

[metamorphesque]

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

[caveofhypnos-blog]

“What I count on is a white birch that stands where no human language is ever heard.”

—

Yosano Akiko, from ‘River of Stars’.

[cowgirliee]

I thoroughly enjoy dates and all but why are we pretending they taste like caramel what kind of caramel are you eating

[kosmogrl]

[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Retroactive jealousy”

[Text ID: “Someday I’ll care for something / without wanting to close a door behind it.”]

[feral-ballad]

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “God Searches for God”

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: I have nothing to give but tears, of which one is too much and a whole sea not enough. ]

[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Seduction theory”

[Text ID: “so let it be known when I want something I want more of it than usually exists.”]

[tristealven]

— T Fleischmann, Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay (Sarabande Books, 2012)

[gothredy]

[gothredy]

[weltenwellen]

“If you inherently long for something, become it first. If you want gardens, become the gardener. If you want love, embody love. If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation. If you want peace, exude calmness. If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint. If you want to be valued, respect your own time. If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself. This is how to draw it in, day by day, inch by inch.”

— Victoria Erickson

[newvision]

Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it

[gothredy]

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