[morepeachyogurt]

Cain by José Saramago translation by Margaret Jull Costa

[ldr-lil2]

[butwafflesss]

The gentle hum of everything you’ve ever been

[nixscriptum]

[thediverismylove]

“What is writing but the preservation of ghosts?”

— Cameron Awkward-Rich from “Essay on the Appearance of Ghosts”, Sympathetic Little Monster

[nonbinaryjomarch]

“When the chorus sing that the ‘name of the land will vanish’ and ‘Troy no longer exists’, they are singing for an audience for whom Troy’s name has survived.”

- P.E. Easterling on Euripides’s Trojan Woman, from ‘Form and Performance in Greek Tragedy’, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy

[soracities]

Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (trans. Richard Howard) [ID in ALT]

[voirlvmer]

the blood inside my hands is now inside the world. Words, the prophets tell us, destroy nothing they can’t rebuild.

Ocean Vuong, from “American Legend”, Time is a Mother

[terpsikeraunos]

latin word of the day: velivolus, -a, -um, sail-flying, winged with sails, a poetic epithet of a ship

[thirdity]

“I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death.”

— Georges Bataille, The Scission

[neoyorzapoteca]

“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.”

—

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

(via of-saudade, textture)

[fawnaura]

“Your name untied every knot in my body,”

— Yusef Komunyakaa, Pleasure Dome; “Providence”

[firstfullmoon]

“I have built you a shore with all my best words & still, the waves.”

— Claire Schwartz, from “Shards with Diffuse Light”

“I write things down. I build a life & tear it apart & the sun keeps shining.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Daily Bread”

“All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.”

— Anne Sexton, from “The Fury of Sunsets”

[wingedhoney]

heavenly words

aliferous: (adj.) having wings

apricity: (n.) the warmth of the sun in the winter

aspectabund: (adj.) letting emotion show easily through the face or eyes

aurora: (n.) dawn

balter: (v.) to dance gracelessly, but with enjoyment

cafune: (n.) the act of running your fingers through the hair of someone you love

catharsis: (n.) release of emotional tension

charmolypi: (n.) a mixed feeling of happiness while being sad

diaphonous: (adj.) light, translucent, and delicate

dulcet: (adj.) sweet

ephemeral: (adj.) fleeting

ethereal: (adj.) extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world

eutony: (n.) the pleasantness of a word’s sound

halcyon: (adj.) a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

illecebrous: (adj.) enticing

irenic: (adj.) promoting peace

kalon: (n.) beauty that is more than skin-deep

kalopsia: (n.) the seeing of things as more beautiful than they actually are

lacuna: (n.) a blank or missing part

lilt: (n.) a pleasant gentle accent

ludic: (adj.) full of fun and high spirits

meraki: (n.) to do something with love or soul

nefelibata: (n.) cloud-walker; one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination

nepenthe: (n.) something that makes one forget their sadness

nubivagant: (adj.) wandering in the clouds

numinous: (adj.) feeling fearful yet awed and inspired

orphic: (adj.) beyond ordinary understanding

pyrrhic: (adj.) won at too great a cost

pulchritudinous: (adj.) breathtaking, heartbreaking beauty

scintilla: (n.) a tiny trace or spark of a feeling

selcouth: (adj.) unfamiliar, strange, yet marvelous

sirimiri: (n.) a light drizzle of rain

susurrus: (n.)  whispering, murmuring, or rustling

sweven: (n.) a dream

temerate: (v.) to break a bond or promise

viridity: (n.) innocence

yonderly: (adj.) absent-minded

[deadithurts]

just found out that “wish you were here” in persian is ‘jāy-e shomā khālīst’ which means “your place is empty” and it felt like being stabbed in the heart 37 times

[luckystarinsky]

when mary oliver said ‘if you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. give in to it.’

and mahmoud darwish said ‘and if happiness should surprise you again, do not mention its previous betrayal.

enter into the happiness, and burst.’

[endless-unfolding]

the things that will kill us have beautiful names

—Jonny Veach, from “Aneurysm,” phantom limb (Fall/Winter 2014)

[wordsnquotes]

“serein”

—

(səˈræn), noun | A beautiful untranslatable French word, serein is described as the moment when rain falls from a clear sky. This type of rain is described as a fine, light drizzle which takes place after dusk on a grey cloudless sky. 

literally: serene or clear