Words, Words, Words

"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink." T. S. Eliot

[havingapoemwithyou]

for the anniversary of my death by W.S. Merwin

[catchymemes]

[orphic-sapphira]

"I'll follow you and make a Heaven out of Hell,

And I'll die by your hand, which I love so well."

— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

[beguines]

Kate Cayley, from “Lent”

[beguines]

[weltenwellen]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

[lunchboxpoems]

FRANNY CHOI

[marthajefferson]

“Goethe has said, that in youth we cannot be happy unless we love. I did not love; but I was devoured by a restless wish to be something to others.”

— Mary Shelley, from The Last Man. (via weepforadonais)

[rybaris]

the love song

[wordsbloodink]

The deaf don’t believe in silence. Silence is the invention of the hearing.

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Notes”

[wordsbloodink]

This is a battle

worthy

of our weapons

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Lullaby”

[wordsbloodink]

she teaches us how to open the door

and walk

through

which is the true curriculum of schools

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “When Momma Galya First Protested”

[wordsbloodink]

Six words,

Lord:

please ease

of song

my tongue.

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Elegy”

[wordsbloodink]

At the trial of God we will ask: why did you allow this?

And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow this?

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck”

[wordsbloodink]

You can fuck

anyone—but with whom can you sit

in water?

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses”

[wordsbloodink]

On earth

a man cannot flip a finger at the sky

because each man is already

a finger flipped at the sky

Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic, “Soldiers Aim at Us”

[wordsbloodink]

Let us be content with our own knowledge of what we are to each other. Do not let us call in others to see our happiness.

- Charlotte M. Yonge, "The Heir of Redclyffe"

[wordsbloodink]

And she is all of solid fire.

William Blake "The Mental Traveller"