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i read posts in this website and i’m like “whos saying that ive never heard anyone say that”

Celeste Mountjoy

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“I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose, in order to see your soul, and I didn’t see it.”

— Juan Ramón Jiménez, from “I took off petal after petal“, translated by Robert Bly (via finita–la–commedia)

“III. Every death I escaped was for you.”

— Camonghne Felix, excerpt of “Your Girlfriend in 30 Parts”, on Palette Poetry (via antigonick)

“The wind had eaten away parts of my face and my hands. They called me ragged angel. I lay waiting.”

— Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972; Dispatches, Alejandra Pizarnik (tr. Yvette Siegert)

Saw you standing by the water…

Twilight in Riga, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky / Hello Old Rabbit, The Mountain Goats

“In a moment all one cherishes vanishes Which dream is the dream–the one we awaken from and go into or from which we never emerge?”

— Cid Corman, from ‘3′, Nothing Doing

[ID: excerpt from “Cast,” a poem by Nina Cassian

‘I’ll remain tender inside like the pulp of some fruit of the desert or like the Devil immobilized in God.’]

i know i always talk about this but. “don’t go where i can’t follow” is such a wild line. it’s literally 6 words and yet

“Listen, whatever it is you try to do with your life, nothing will ever dazzle you like the dreams of your body,”

— American Primitive; Humpbacks, Mary Oliver

Kim Addonizio, from “The Singing”, Tell Me

“When I woke up this morning, I didn’t have a face. Just a mask of pain.”

— Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook

“It pleased the devil to make you beautiful,”

— Joseph Auslander, from The Collected Poems of J. A.; “Diablerie,”

any Catholics online ? I got some questions.

Yeah I'm catholic whatsup

how do i reach heaven through violence

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