alexandra christo, to kill a kingdom
“Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via perfectquote)
@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
the tragic hero attains something like divine completeness, except that for human beings completeness is death.
from love as an act of merciful conquer by silas denver melvin
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“I will lose you. It is written into this poem the way the fisherman’s wife knits his death into the sweater.”
— Gregory Orr, “The Sweater,” The Caged Owl: New & Selected Poems
“& my body is a wall so thin you could miss it so wide it cuts the world in half & out the light you stumble touch yourself gently & enough.”
— Danez Smith, from “For the Dead Homie,” published in The Fight and the Fiddle (via lifeinpoetry)
Cathy Linh Che, from Go Forget your father//Friedrich Nietzsche// Richey Edwards// // Moss Angel, Girldirt Angelfog// Rainer Maria Rilke, Fragment of an Elegy,// Leila Miccolis, till death do us part.
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980