Dead Poets Live Forever

Cats. Coffee. Poetry. She/her.

[great-gatsby]

every reread kills me a little bit more

[great-gatsby]

reread and enjoy <3

[feral-ballad]

Savannah Brown, from Closer Baby Closer; “Current events”

[Text ID: “Take me / in. Want me how a sentence wants / an end, how a memory wants to be / spoken. With the urgency of breath / when the bag is finally removed / from the head.”]

[pityroad]

— from My Father Writes from Prison, Ocean Vuong, in 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'

[text ID: & there are things / I can say only in the dark / how one spring / I crushed a monarch midflight / just to know how it felt / to have something change / in my hands /]

[aaronstveit]

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[kosmogrl]

[polkadotmotmot]

Alison Friend - Lover Not A Fighter, 2023

[autumndragons]

[image id: a traditional painting of an orange tabby cat, sitting upright on what appears to be a wooden table with its paws resting on its lap, looking toward the viewer with a gentle smile. its wearing a red knit sweater with a white band across the chest that says "LOVER". the background is a muted orange-brown. end id.]

[paracosmoon]

[eggsaladstain]

“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

[thegirlthatcriesacademia]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous // Alison Pelegrin, from “Collect for the Days of My Youth,” Waterlines: Poems // @sunsbleeding // Doreen Valiente // Stanley Plumly

[poetryofmanya]

― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous.

[sicknessinmotion]

the child you never got to be

ocean vuong // nicole eisenman // donte collins // marjane satrapi // @promqueendyke // liv ullmann // jenny slate.

[wedarkacademia]

“Because tenderness depends on how little the world touches you. To stay tender, the weight of your life cannot lean on your bones.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[dr4gme]

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on memory and loss

Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood / Call Me by Your Name (2018) dir. Luca Guadagnino / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Sea Wolf The Garden That You Planted / Ocean Vuong On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Vladimir Nabokov / Theodore Roethke Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke / The Truman Show (1998) dir. Peter Weir / Amal El-Mohtar This is How You Lose the Time War

[metamorphesque]

musings on oranges

Alessia Di Cesare, Romero Barros, Wendy Cope, David Stevenson, Rebecca O’Connor, Andrea Kantrowitz, Nina LaCour, Augustin Rouart, Ocean Vuong, Chris Krupinski, Wendy Cope, Mickie Acierno, Jacques Prévert, Robert Spear Dunning, Wendy Cope

buy me a coffee

[fearbehere]

learning to be my mother

What We Become, Hailey Noecker / Mirror Traps, Hera Lindsey Bird / unknown / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / legitimately fucking dean winchester from supernatural / Elektra, Sophokles / When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, Chen Chen / The White Dress, Nathalie Leger / Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn

[metamorphesque]

tenderness is in the hands ― Carolyn Forché, L’Avventura (1960), Ocean Vuong, The White Ribbon (2009), Hart Crane, Gelatin Silver, Love (2009), Ingeborg Bachmann, Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Sylvia Plath, Psycho (1960), Rod McKuen (stills by @forhandsthatsuffer)