* THE WRATH

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“She is not afraid of the darkest dark, in fact she can see in the dark. She is not afraid of offal, refuse, decay, stink, blood, cold bones, dying girls, or murderous hasbands. She can see it, she can take it, she can help.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, from  “Women who Run with the Wolves,” c. 1992

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well u know what rimbaud said........ ecstasy, nightmare, and sleep in a nest of flames....

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“How can she bear the pain of becoming human? The end of exile is the end of being.”

— Angela Carter, from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; The Lady of the House of Love.

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Mircea Suciu (Romanian, b. 1978), Camouflage (2), 2016. Oil, acrylic and monoprint on linen, 90 x 90 cm.

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Madonna in Glory, Carlo Dolci 1665-1675.

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“Strange goddess, witch, and daughter of night,”

— Charles Baudelaire, tr. by Roy Campbell, from “Sed non Satiata,”

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“I keep trying to get out of a cage they keep telling me I’m not really in.”

— sarah xerta, ‘juliet (I)’

[karrova]

“and our throats were bare for god.”

— Trisha Low, from The Compleat Purge (via lifeinpoetry)

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when audre lorde said “you need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.”

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Novica Tadić, ‘About the Knife’, Dark Things: Poems (trans. Charles Simic)

[Text ID: “My blood wouldn’t let me rest.

Mercy walked away from me. Now, quickly, you do the same.”]

[megairea]

“You may, unwittingly, fall in. She is the witch. You know her, yet you do not know her. She has been with you always, yet she eludes you.”

— Erica Jong, Witches, 1981

[megairea]

“She is more beautiful (and uglier) than you dream. She is a chimera, yet she is real. […] She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.”

— Erica Jong, Witches, 1981

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sylvia plath, ‘lady lazarus’

[ID: “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real.” end ID]

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Makeup at Vivienne Westwood Fall 2010

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Maria Magdalena meditant en el deserto, José de Ribera ( 1591 - 1652).

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Lyda Borelli as Salomé (Oscar Wilde)

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Feu de camp, photographed by Michal Pudelka, Numéro June 2015.