martina

“… and not, when I had come to die, discovered I had not lived” - Thoreau, Walden https://linktr.ee/bibliophilia_____

[martinameroivacis]

Yes, I am a woman of imagination, I want it. I want to drink and be free of the words that cage me, of this reality that buries me and the world that breaks me. I am a poet and I want to be free.

- This is me reading The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, yes I am clearly adoring this book

[chillpotato]

Franz Kafka (June 7 1912), from 'The Diaries of Franz Kafka'

[deviika]

Mahmoud Darwish // Fyodor Dostoevsky

[flowerytale]

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) created by John Logan

[thefirstlivingart]

pain is not the only touchstone for growth

melanie martinez, womb / warsan shire, backwards / mary oliver, “blue iris.” devotions / jmfenner / nayyirah waheed / jenny slate, little weirds / @soapstore on tumblr / jenny slate, little weirds / ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous / sue zhao / @emmablowguns on twitter / jenny slate, little weirds / ottessa moshfegh, my year of rest and relaxation / @anariafortheendoftimes on tumblr / mary oliver, upstream / marya hornbacher, waiting / robert de flers

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— Haruki Murakami, from “1Q84.”

[shisasan]

May 11, 1931 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

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— Kim Visda, from “For Lack Of A Better Poem.”

[astrophilliaa]

It speaks beyond words..

[septemberkisses]

— Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell The Wolves I'm Home

[cam1lla]

“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

[deviika]

Albert Geiger

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— Adrienne Rich, from “Integrity.”

[apoemaday]

Introduction to Poetry

by Billy Collins

I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out

or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem, waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

[martinameroivacis]

I am living my Holden Caulfield era. And i’m not sure what to do about it.

[metamorphesque]

― E.M. Forster, Howards End

[text ID: The house was very quiet, and the fog—we are in November now—pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.]

[lovelymessywords]

“If I heal, doesn’t it mean I’ve accepted the world without her?”

— Jandy Nelson, The sky is everywhere

[llovelymoonn]

on love as conversation

alice oseman radio silence (via @liriostigre) \ bell hooks

kofi