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A beautiful Uchigatana decorated with gold and copper alloy, Japan, ca. 17th-18th century, housed at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

theoptia

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; September 29th, 1926

Text ID: I had the taste of nothingness in my mouth, complete darkness, not even the hope of a glimmer of light.

cobblestone-ghost

leppu

https://www.tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/305

AAHH! TIGERS!! THEY’RE HERE

antigonick

“He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.”

— A. S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End of The Gods

lifeinpoetry

“I inherited hunger, popped jaw, all teeth, & father taught me how to feast.”

— Kemi Alabi, from “No More White Girls, or What I Learned from Father,” published in KWELI

lifeinpoetry

“my love is a graceless, heaving thing”

— — Faye Chevalier, from “blood II,” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, eds. Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel

soracities

“[…] The wind is an open sore. I’m all roots and burn Mom, I’m burning Mom, I’m burning Mom, I’m burning.”

— Evan Knoll, from ‘Blood Makes the Blade Holy,’ Muzzle Magazine

antigonick

“What is that stain spreading from your neck to your knees to your doorstep to your ridiculous glass-like soul that was supposed to outlast the centuries, outlive the galaxies, survive the rules of love, master the odds of war and transcend all seven level oceans of Homer?”

— Anne Carson, in Norma Jeane Baker of Troy