Ryann

A tumblr for poetry

[ryannpoetry]

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

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[nauseadaily]

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre (via nauseadaily)

[nauseadaily]

“But it stayed there, like a dead weight inside me.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

[alrights]

“Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes”

— Walt Whitman

[heteroglossia]

“Whoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, […] Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem, […] I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you. […] I should have made my way straight to you long ago, I should have spoken nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing but you.”

— Walt Whitman, “Poem of You, Whoever You Are,” Selected Poems 1855-1892

[existential-celestial]

“Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch’d from,”

— Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819), “Song of Myself,” in WHITMAN (The Laurel Poetry Series).

[lecataste]

[exitwound]

when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”

[smakkabagms]

“Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has.”

— Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (via philosophybits)

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[identicaltwinhalfbrother]

Dignity here to join the girl posse.

[brainwad]

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE

[becomeunsolved]

reblogging for the second time

[athelind]

ALWAYS REBLOG

[cydonianlady]

Reblogging because I don’t think Dignity was on it last time I saw it.

[thenightling]

Dignity is rare on this site. 

[smakkabagms]

“My heart is a garden tired with autumn, heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark”

— Sara Teasdale, from Flame and Shadow: “The Garden” (via intopermanence)

[dustyn0vels]

This is by far my favourite thing I've seen for this community. I feel so much pressure to read certain books that I haven't got the money to buy and I feel wrong talking about the ones I am reading. This community is great, and I know we all want to be pretentious and snobby, but let's use that for aesthetic purposes and not to put others down.

(Btw ironically enough I found this text post on Instagram, not Tumblr and now I'm reposting it to Tumblr because idk how to find the original)

The original creators: @read-and-be-merry @iammewhooaryou @narukoibito

[duotheism]

The Gates in June – Fritz Wildhagen / June in the Austrian Tyrol, John MacWhirter / A Month of First Crushes, Schuyler Peck @schuylerpeck / Flaming June, Frederic Leighton / June, Frederick Seidel / Evening, Joseph Brodsky / Romance, Arthur Rimbaud / June, Florence and the Machine / Sonnet XL, Pablo Neruda / Watermelon Sugar, Harry Styles / The Blacksmith, Arthur Rimbaud / Diaries, 1914-1923, Franz Kafka

[stay-close]

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

[thehopefulquotes]

I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that's natural and that's real.

— Marc Jacobs

[thebookquotes]

If you believe in peace, act peacefully ; if you believe in love, acting lovingly ; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

— Tom Robbins

[gonegrlpoetry]

mothers and daughters, n.p

Mother and Daughter, c. 1891 - Paul Gauguin