emotional warfare

a place i made just to share quotes, phrases, and words that create emotion in me. it's just for me 🩷 but you can stay if you are similarly moved. twitter.

[theoptia]

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book: Liber Novus

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from The Book of Promethea

Text ID: I exist, I am, don't come near, I have teeth, I have claws.

[maryolive]

Untitled by Joy Harjo

[metamorphesque]

— To the Desert, Benjamin Alire Sáenz 

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Soup”, Instructions for Traveling West

[havingapoemwithyou]

Turning by Victoria Chang

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

[feral-ballad]

Yi Lei, tr. by Tracy K. Smith, from My Name Will Grow Wild Like a Tree: Selected Poems; “I don’t want to be restored to reason”

[boykeats]

[ID: poem text reading,

"Buried miles deep, and for what? I shrink even from myself. I wish To get out from under the sky,"

/end ID]

[on-poetry]

"Eurydice's Lament" by Sean Glatch, published in Passionfruit Review

[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[geryone]

i love you, it looks like rain, June Gehringer

[firstfullmoon]

Sharon Olds, “Late Poem to My Father”

[femmedummy]

the tragedy of distance is simple I want to sit on the couch with you and do nothing sometimes

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[metamorphesque]

i like your name, tathev simonyan

[metamorphesque]

Letters to Felice, Franz Kafka (translated by James Stern and Elisabeth Duckworth)

[heavensghost]

I picture it soft and I ache!