#assortment.

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#A STUDY ON RAGE:   an assortment.   includes works from jane rule, hélène cixous, anne carson,& others.

you don't grieve. you rage. 

i feel an ancient anger welling up in me. 

i keep waiting for my anger to go dormant, but it won't. 

they tell me:  'you should be kinder. you are somehow furious.'  i used to be kind... it didn't last long. 

anger has its place. anger has fire, and fire moves things.  

what are we made of but hunger and rage?  

what suffering is behind your anger? 

tell me how you stand the murderous fury. 

love implies anger. one who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. 

after fury, what do you do with the remains? 

you inherited [name]’s rage.

i’ve tried to be forgiving.

this... this is not rage. this is despair.

i will be wild. i will be brutal. i will be inevitable.

anger is like fire. it burns it all clean.

i hold a grudge like it’s a hand.

what else can my hands do with the blood? pray? 

[bogkeep]

sleeping loft companions

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#LOUISE GLÜCK:    assorted quotes from descending figure, metamorphosis, averno, october, & others.

here is my hand that will not harm you. 

the garden admires you. 

death doesn't frighten me. 

i know intense love always leads to mourning. 

this is the end, isn't it? 

the self i wished to be is the self i am.

i have nothing to give them. 

surely it is a privilege to approach the end still believing in something. 

i remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere. 

what is my heart to you, that you must break it over and over? 

i, too, desire knowledge of paradise. 

long ago, i was wounded. 

doesn't everyone want love? 

do you dare send me away as though you were waiting for something better? 

do you see? we were made fools of. 

i was afraid of love; of being taken away, 

everyone afraid of love is afraid of death. 

i think here i will leave you. 

no one can see me. only you. 

you will not be spared. 

i always wondered what you wished for. 

what do you think i wish for?

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#ANNE SEXTON:   assorted quotes from letters & poems.

i will take a crowbar and pry out the broken pieces of god in me.

once, i was beautiful.

my religion is love.

i am a collection of dismantled almosts.

i don't care; i love you anyhow.

it is too late to turn you out of my heart ― part of you lives here.

you make me feel at home.

you make me feel that the world is not strange.

what kinder gift can someone give another one?

love, perhaps, should always be this simple.

your silence is loud.

i feel unspeakably lonely.

i am a tender heart still.

how foolishly destructive one can be.

i am tired of being brave.

i am my own stranger.

this is how i want to die.

spring will come.

your eyes are full of language.

i want to calm down. to rest. to outlive this nonsense.

let me go. let me go.