"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
-Rudyard Kipling
14 hours ago
| Notes: 1222
"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
- Rumi (via human-voices)
(via neusdadt)
2 days ago
| Notes: 90
"Wherever I am
I am what is missing."
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Mark Strand, from “Keeping Things Whole” (via growing-orbits
)
6 days ago
| Notes: 1
wow love the moments when there’s a vomitting of words that are absolutely true and beautiful and malicious and that you’ve held in for far far too long.
1 week ago
| Notes: 33
"Alive in the slippery moonlight,
how easily you managed
to hold yourself upright
on your small heels.
You emerged from your image
on the smooth fields
as if held back from flight by a hinge.
I used to find you
balanced on your visible ghost
holding it down by a corner. The blind
stain crawled, fawning, about you.
Your body staked its shadow like a post.
Gone, you leave nothing behind,
not a toe to hold steady or true
your image which lives in my mind."
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The Loss by Anne Stevenson (via growing-orbits
)
1 week ago
| Notes: 49
"I might feel, and I do feel, that in order to write poetry seriously one must take seriously the reality of the soul. A word reflects us back to our own condition, a symbol. ‘Every word was once a poem.’"
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Dan Beachy-Quick, “A January Notebook”, Evening Will Come, April 2011 (with thanks to leopoldgursky)
(via growing-orbits)
