wattswritten

  This is the glimpse of the god you were never supposed to get. — Laura Kasischke  

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

i could kiss her so deep– i’d dissolve into her.

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“I, in my corner, with my monstrous needs.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks (1964 - 1980)

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Constantine P. Cavafy, from a poem titled "The City," featured in A Century of Greek Poetry (1900-2000)

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[barcarole]

“Eternal whispers, glooms, the birth, life, death Of unseen flowers in heavy peacefulness;”

— John Keats, Endymion: Book I

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[letsbelonelytogetherr]

My advice to you is this: Commit some bright, brave sins while you have time.

– Judith Tate O'Brien

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— Nina LaCour via letsbelonelytogetherr

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Nelson Algren, featured in "A Transatlantic Love Affair,"

[lifeinpoetry]

. As though both my eyes are covered only with scars as though pus is seeping from both my eyes I clasp this cloudy darkness and tread endlessly backward

As though sucking in ending moons of sleeping trees and sleeping beasts as though molded of night’s nucleus a wordlessly dignified crystal

— Kim Hyesoon, from "Owl," The Hell of That Star, tr. Cindy Juyoung Ok

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— endlessnamelesseternity (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[nixscriptum]

I knew who I was this morning; I’ve changed a few times since then. - alice in wonderland

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[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter in translation to Tania Kauffman, featured in All Letters of Clarice Lispector

[seraphinesaintclair]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Ghosts”

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Robert Desnos, from Essential Poems & Writings; "Ancient Clamor,"

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“When I kissed her I was so full of desire between one kiss and another that I felt I would lose her if we stopped kissing.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Ibrahim Muhawi, from “Journal of an Ordinary Grief,”