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by Gerard Kingma

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Theodore Roethke, from "Plaint", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

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If I wanted to watch a live stream I’d go down to the river and into the river I’d dive

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell (August 1908)

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— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

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i don’t think gym muscle counts. i think you should put on muscle from ploughing the field. rowing a boat. spending your days at the loom weaving intricate carpets. things of that nature

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“I am very tired of my own brain,”

— Gustave Flaubert, from a letter to Maxime Du Camp c. April 1854 (via shikuzo)

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Anis Mojgani, from "In May she came, in May she stayed, in May she was gone"

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“Cold water added to cold water, makes no disturbance. Error added to error causes no jar. Selfishness and selfishness walk together in peace, because they are agreed; but when fire is brought in direct contact with water, when flaming truth grapples with some loathsome error, when the clear and sweet current of benevolence sets against the foul and bitter stream of selfishness, when mercy and humanity confront iron-hearted cruelty, and ignorant brutality, there cannot fail to be agitation and excitement.”

— Frederick Douglass, “The American Apocalypse (1861)”

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Dayspring, Anthony Oliveira

#August

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— Margaret Atwood, from “Power Politics.”

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Durdle Door

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Richard Siken, A Primer for the Small Weird Loves

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— Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes, by Rainer Maria Rilke

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when kafka said ‘you wouldn’t believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it’ and when brontë said ‘if you ever looked at me with what I know is in you, I would be your slave’ and when Sartre said ‘if I’ve got to suffer it may as well be at your hands’