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I Want to be Adored. Quietly Living. Imagine me and you. I do.

[lilllium]

—W. S. Merwin, from Separation

[lifeinpoetry]

“A man takes his sadness down to the river and throws it in the river but then he’s still left with the river. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.”

— Richard Siken, “Root Theory”

[goreprofonde]

- Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig.

[heavensghost]

In the name of Love, Katie Maria

( @heavensghost )

[deviika]

Mahmoud Darwish // Catherynne M. Valente

[heavensghost]

my favourite quote by Richard Siken

[kriewitz-deactivated20210322]

“i am here”, 2018

[weltenwellen]

Fariha Róisín, How to Cure a Ghost

[weltenwellen]

Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

[fawnaura]

Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water: A Memoir

[quotespile]

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[especially]

[zuraun]

[quotemadness]

“I think there are pieces of yourself that you will always guard.”

— Kiera Cass

[quotespile]

“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.”

— William T. Vollmann, Europe Central

[shisasan]

“You have always wanted to caress every monster.”

— Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche (via crimsonkismet)

[stay-close]

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

— Anne Sexton, "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters"