profanity and prose

Archive Unattainable Australian | Married | Female | Mother | 30’s “I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent deliberate silence.” Behave with utmost propriety. All images are my own.

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I’m harder to forget than I am to leave…

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“We have grown in secret.”

— Jacques Coetzee, ‘House of Loveliness’.

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“To make an end is to make a beginning.”

— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets.

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Feuch an dèan thu gàire?

Anything for a Scottish boy…

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“For last years words belong to last years language, and next years words await another voice.”

— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets.

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“You have been weighed and measured, and found wanting.”

— Daniel 5:27

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“Dreams are what you wake up from.”

— Raymond Carver, The Bridle.

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“That smut. The way it slips from his mouth and under my skirt, soaking the hemline of my heart. From the gutter my body begs; defile, defile, defile.”

— Profanity and Prose, Smut-Drunk.

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“Vorfreude.”

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“Everything has a moral, if only you can find it.”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

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“…and my mouth longs to open to you like a long-lost letter in your beautiful hands.”

— Michael Burkard.

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“Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory of you.”

— Pablo Neruda.

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“Wonderland of long ago…”

— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.

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“Your unwritten pages lift an ongoing dusk in me.”

— Tess Gallagher.

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“Your body spreads across my brain like a bird filled summer.”

— Kenneth Rexroth.

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“The sky is not my limit...I am.”

— T. F. Hodge.

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“My softest secret hurts.”

— Loueva Smith, ‘The Stray I Keep’.