Road Full of Promise

we will not live to settle for less/we have dreamed of this all of our lives

[weusedtobegiants]

A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal

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[blue-nebraska]

[macrolit]

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819)

[jazbaaati]

Adrienne Rich, Toward the Solstice from Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977

[lonelywoodland]

photo by Rachel Duffy

[cozycottagefairy]

this is a stained glass appreciation post

[jazbaaati]

- Jeanette Winterson on The Waves by Virginia Woolf. (A Veil of Words from Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery)

[essayisms]

Orlando, Virginia Woolf.

[the-fox-burrow]

[timothysethavett]

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[ripe]

[bioaccumulation]

I miss the god complex english class gave me

[lonelywoodland]

photo by Rachel Duffy

[lonelywoodland]

[watchoutforintellect]

“these months speak years.”

— Danielle Collobert, from Notebooks: 1956-1978 (Translated by Norma Cole)

[ar-rad]

enormous documentation

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse