July 2011
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At Full Speed by Hilde Domin
We sit on a train no one asks if we want to get off and we move towards a bridge and the bridge will break This bridge or the next will break
How much you hurt me how much I hurt you as we are travelling in such a hurry towards a bridge― that won’t hold
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“For long periods I read and write nothing, finding both equally repugnant. There...”
– Thomas Bernhard (via aperfectcommotion)
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“There is this idea of ‘the slut’ which is a mind numbing, blindly...”
– Nicole Ouimette, The Myth of Being a Slut (via feministdykeslut)
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from "Eurydice" by H.D.
At least I have the flowers of myself, and my thoughts, no god can take that; I have the fervour of myself for a presence and my own spirit for light;
and my spirit with its loss knows this; though small against the black, small against the formless rocks, hell must break before I am lost;
before I am lost, hell must open like a red rose for the dead to pass.
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“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase:...”
– Henri Frédéric Amiel
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“‘I still care for you, you know’
That phrase again. Everyone
cares for me....”
– Ellen Hopkins (via as-white-as-snow)
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Sugar on my Tongue, Talking Heads (via...
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“What do I think of women who get cosmetic surgery? It doesn’t seem productive or...”
– discosherpa (via octagon-surgeon)
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The Dream of Mourning by Louise Glück
I sleep so you will be alive, it is that simple. The dreams themselves are nothing. They are the sickness you control, nothing more. I rush toward you in the summer twilight, not in the real world, but in the buried one where you are waiting, as the wind moves over the bay, toying with it, forcing thin ridges of panic— And then the morning comes, demanding prey. Remember? And then the world...
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“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
– Mario Benedetti (via aperfectcommotion)
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“I’ve never heard a rape joke that actually meets the criteria of ‘funny’ or...”
– Harriet J (via unitedstatesofmeryl)
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“The beauty of modern Man is not in the persons but in the Disastrous rhythm, the heavy and mobile masses, the dance of the Dream-led masses down the dark mountain.”
― Robinson Jeffers, excerpt from “Rearmament” (via source, aperfectcommotion
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)
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