[itsonlypoetry]

Anne Carson - Lecture on the History of Skywriting

@ffrcyswth told me about this lecture and now I’m completely in love with it

[transvioletbaudelaire]

When lemony snicket said “i will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong. i will love you until all the codes and hearts have been broken and until every anagram and egg has been unscrambled. i will love you as we grow older, which has just happened, and has happened again, and happened several days ago, continuously, and then several years before that, and will continue to happen as the spinning hands of every clock and the flipping pages of every calendar mark the passage of time. i will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. i will love you if you don’t marry me. i will love you if you marry someone else, and i will love you if you have a child, and i will love you if you have two children, or three children, or even more, although I personally think three is plenty, and i will love you if you never marry at all, and never have children, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all, and I must say that on late, cold nights i prefer this scenario out of all the scenarios i have mentioned. that, beatrice, is how i will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way”

[felinepurrrstory]

Louise Gluck

[infpisme]

[infpisme]

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

[be-qarar]

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”

- Sylvia Plath

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Judah HaLevi, gay Spanish Jewish poet of the late tenth century

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Anne Carson

[electricraccoonincident-deactiv]

— Anne Carson, “God’s Work”

[funeral]

[godswollen-deactivated20171014]

from “Footnotes to A History of Desire” by Kristy Bowen

[thegirlwiththeloontattoo]

People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

[objetpetita]

Anne Carson, Wrong Norma

[lesbianherstorian]

excerpt from “four poems by carla” published in the ladder vol. 13 no. 5, february 1969

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I love too much, too wholly,”

— Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in “The Unabridged Journals,”

[twowugs]

the poem i wrote this morning is up on my website ❤️

[fresh-young-doggo]

““America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, "It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.” It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: “If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?” There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand - glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.“ "Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.” “Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves. Once this is understood, the disagreeable behavior of American enlisted men in German prisons ceases to be a mystery.””

— Kurt Vonnegut from Slaughter House 5