we keep the wolves outside by living well

"I am no prophet—and here’s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, // And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker // And in short, I was afraid." - T. S. Eliot

[derangedrhythms]

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

[utopians]

Has anyone else noticed that it's bad

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Guillaume Apollinaire, tr. by Anne Hyde Greet, from Calligrams; “Chains,”

[kragehund-est]

sex isn't sexy unless it's a little bit gross. have you forgotten that you are a divine ape? plastic smooth skin, plucked hair, painted faces, scripted reactions, scrubbed til only the smell of perfumed soap remains, proportions that are conflictingly cookiecutter yet unattainable, none of this is even a little bit interesting.

you can laugh at napoleon's "home in three days, don't bathe" letter to his wife, but there's more sexuality in that one line then there is in the entirety of the hypersexualized but painfully unsexy internet.

[pointnclick]

basically tv sucks because all the really good writers are fucked up recluse hermits that spend all day alone, vividly hallucinating about imagined worlds, and don’t have any industry connections or even earthly tethers

[pointnclick]

somewhere a writer has produced a beautiful manuscript that will never see the light of day because they spent all their time doing speed alone in their house instead of curating a linkedin profile

[sawasawako-archived]

jeanette winterson, referenced by victoria chang, says, ‘the best work speaks intimately to you, even though it has been consciously made to speak intimately to thousands of others.’

jorge luis borges, addressing a large audience in the butler library at columbia university, said, ‘a crowd is an illusion. no such thing exists. i am talking to you personally.’

[girlwave]

glenn dean, landscapes of the west / user @petrichara

[uncletobysfruitybites]

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.” - The Crucible, Arthur Miller

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

[muresetivoire]

When Mr Darcy went from "consent to be my wife," to "allow me the honour of becoming your husband," my expectation for love skyrocketed

[stlowens]

Mary Oliver, from “I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly.” [ID in alt text]

[etherea1ity]

sometimes do you ever just want to

[finalgirlguy]

some of my favorite poems

Everything Needs Fixing by Karla Cordero

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

Poem by Lansgton Hughes

Jessica gives me a chill pill by Angie Sijun Lou

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

I THINK I AM GOING TO CUT MY HAIR by @seravph

So so many of Richard Siken's poems but specially Scheherazade, Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out, and Snow and Dirty Rain

The Orange by Wendy Cope

Our Beautiful Life When It's Filled With Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Dogfish by Mary Oliver

July by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Supper by Garrison Keillor

What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado by Emily Palermo

SECOND GENERATION ANTI-LOVE LETTER by Leela Raj-Sankar

Ode to Elliot Smith, Ending in the First Snowfall of 2003, by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

[metamorphesque]

food as a love language

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[moonstoast]

letters to milena by franz kafka // camouflage by ron hicks // the golden notebook by doris lessing // ? // a letter to galatea kazantzaki by nikos kazantzakis

[ourobores]

SEPTEMBER

song of the simple truth: the complete poems - julia de burgos / a september day - george henry / excerpt from a letter to aurelia plath - sylvia plath / french autumn - artem tolstukhin / earthquake weather - janice gould / blue shutters - kim english / a girl ago - lucie brock-broido / little women (2019) dir. greta gerwig / september garden party - jane kenyon / constanze saemann and charlotte foubert photographed by ryan brabazon / september 1st - dante émile

[moonstoast]

crush by richard siken // richard diebenkorn // richard diebenkorn // if there’s a way out i’ll take it by lora mathis

[girlwill]

"i could fix him" good for you. im gonna join him in his insanity