monaamour

[monaamour]

[monaamour]

i’m beautiful

you should remember that.

at least there’s a pretty face attached to the hand around your neck

[monaamour]

It was a long time ago. It doesn't matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beuscher

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Coraline sighed. "You really don't understand, do you?" she said. "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted? Just like that, and it didn't mean anything. What then?

(Neil Gaiman: Coraline, chapter 10)

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Making “art” instead of what I should be doing is always the right choice

[monaamour]

[monaamour]

Wicked, Gregory Maguire

“She supposed, glumly, that she had meant to be a sort of living marble bust: This is Youthful Intelligence; admire Her. Isn’t She lovely?”

#wicked #words #poetry #books

[monaamour]

any love i showed you is yours to keep

[monaamour]

every so often i remember this poem by langston hughes & am inconsolable

[monaamour]

Louise Glück, Poems 1962-2012

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Osip Mandelstam, from Voronezh Notebooks

Text ID: Where can I hide in this January?

[monaamour]

“I love you and it makes me rather dull.”

— — Marilyn Hacker, from “Villanelle: Late Summer,” Separations, Selected Poems 1965-1990

[monaamour]

Adrienne Rich, from Diving into the Wreck; “Song”

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dogs on the window.

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Margaret Atwood, Power Politics

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"I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. i talk to God, but the sky is empty."

- Sylvia Plath, The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath

[monaamour]

Margaret Atwood, The Door; from 'Owl and Pussycat, Some Years Later'