[orpheuslament]

Song, Allen Ginsberg

[primordialcell]

the most beautiful and ending resource is Many Unmemorable Days in a Row. with you, of course. i am looking for it. there is a stream of it somewhere, deep subterranean. vaulting under the forest

[achillesinhighheels]

[museify]

[292901092489]

I’ve long understood that the youngest in the group is the vessel. But what a privilege to be imbued with everything for which everybody else needs to retroactively absolve themself. They assure themselves you’ll realise they were right and you sit knowing you have two good things: you have no voice and you have time.

[thebroodingprince]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

[292901092489]

[lazyydaisyyy]

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Author’s Note” from The Left Hand of Darkness

[brvtalism]

“A sweating body already offers a show of erotic repulsion and attraction. The body’s primordial temptation to cover itself with its secretions. A mere trickle of water flowing over a smooth stone is enough to make it erotic. Everything that slides evokes sexual pleasure, even the wind. Sliding would thus seem to be the source of all pleasure, and perhaps of meaning.”

— Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories (via applepieskies)

[probuccalfat]

been there

[9e978e]

[nervebynerve]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed, as William Blake said. The same thing can happen when we’re around young children or adults who have unlearned those habits of shutting the world out.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin 

[mythologyofblue]

"Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you're seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking -- this amazes me."

-Louise Glück 

[velocitations]

another classic excerpt from louise glück

[brucespringsteencomments]

[sanstoitniloi]

"You survive this and in some terrible way, which I suppose no one can ever describe, you are compelled, you are corralled, you are bullwhipped into dealing with whatever it is that hurt you. And what is crucial here is that if it hurt you, that is not what’s important. Everybody’s hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people’s pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less."

- James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity