#Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[pityroad]

— Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong, from 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'

[text ID: Brooklyn's too cold tonight

& all my friends are three years away.

My mother said I could be anything

I wanted — but I chose to live.]

#ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #queer poetry #thanksgiving #winter #mine #quotes #favourite

[wedarkacademia]

How sweet. That rain. How something that lives only to fall can be nothing but sweet.

- Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

#Ocean Vuong #Night Sky with Exit Wounds #dark academia #quotes #spilled words #spilled thoughts #dark aesthetic #book quotes #words #words words words #dark acadamia aesthetic #text #dark acamedia #dark academia aesthetic #academia aesthetic #chaotic academia #classic academia #light academia aesthetic #soft academia #romantic academia #study motivation #studyspo #studyinspo #studying #study aesthetic #study notes #study space #studygram #study blog #light academia

[metamorphesque]

   — Ocean Vuong, Reasons for Staying

[text ID: Because this mess I made I made with love.]

#ocean vuong #poem #poetry #literature #quotes #time is a mother #night sky with exit wounds

[asoftepiloguemylove]

on humanity and love

Chen Chen Elegy / Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir / Sheila Heti Pure Colour / unknown (via @morepeachyogurt) / Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds / As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) dir. Jonas Mekas / Berlot Brecht Motto / Fleabag (2016-2019); Episode #2.3 dir. Harry Bradbeer / Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert / pinterest / Louise Glück Vita Nova

#on humanity #on love #on healing #web weave #web weaving #poetry compilation #poetry parallels #chen chen #elegy #dead poets society #peter weir #sheila heti #pure colour #ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #as i was moving ahead #jonas mekas #berlot brecht #motto #fleabag #harry bradbeer #everything everywhere all at once #eeaao #daniel kwan #danielscheinart #louise gluck #vita nova #as i was moving ahead occasionally i saw brief gimpses of beauty #words #poem

[strykerlancer]

“Understand me when I say I burn best when crowned with your scent.”

— Ocean Vuong, from “Night Sky with Exit Wounds.”

#ocean vuong #Night Sky with Exit Wounds #words #literature #poetry #quotes #lit

[thebookofaphrodite]

when ocean vuong wrote "in the body where everything has a price, i was a begger" and "even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared" and "because this is mess i made, i made with love" and "i'm sorry i keep saying how are you? when i really mean are you happy?" and "i am not a writer but a faucet underwater" and

#ocean vuong #time is a mother #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #night sky with exit wounds #booklr #books #books & libraries #classic literature #english literature #short poem #literati #anne sexton #book quotes #dead poets society #poetry #poetsandwriters #spilled poetry #web weaving

[newvision]

— Ocean Vuong, from Night Sky with Exit Wounds

#night sky with exit wounds #ocean vuong #mine #literature #poetry #books #litblr #literature blog #literature excerpts #poetry excerpt #contemporary poetry

[allsadnshit]

Thanksgiving 2006, Ocean Vuong

#personal #super bunny pop studio #ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #poetry

[starsstardust]

About Love from the last 5 books I read

Amanda Lovelace, the princess saves herself in this one // Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It // Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds // Phoenicia Rogerson, Herc // Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

#web weaving #web weave #parallels #about love #book quotes #poems #poetry #ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #the princess saves herself in this one #amanda lovelace #hercules #herc #ada limón #bright dead things #aphrodite made me do it #love #words

[sallyrooneygf]

Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

#someday I’ll love ocean vuong #<- name of the poem #ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #father #father issues #trauma #forgetting #web weaving

[typewriter-worries]

Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong

[ Text ID: some nights you are the / lighthouse / some nights the sea ]

#it's always ourselves we find in the sea #night sky with exit wounds #ocean vuong #my upload #poetry #poets of color #literature #dark academia #classic academia #light academia

[pityroad]

— from My Father Writes from Prison, Ocean Vuong, in 'Night Sky with Exit Wounds'

[text ID: some nights you are the lighthouse / some nights the sea / what this means is that I don't know / desire other than the need / to be battered & rebuilt /]

#ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #queer poetry #lighthouses #lighthouse #quotes #mine #Sea

[wedarkacademia]

"My mother said I could be anything I wanted—but I chose to live." ― Ocean Vuong

#Ocean Vuong #words #text #love #mother #Night Sky with Exit Wounds #poetry #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #light academia #light acadamia aesthetic #chaotic academia #chaotic academia aesthetic #classic academia #classic literature #books #book quotes #literature quotes #deep quotes #life quotes #relatable quotes #bookblr #poetry quotes

[malaisequotes]

“Brooklyn's too cold tonight & all my friends are three years away. My mother said that I could be anything I wanted—but I chose to live. On the stoop of an old brownstone a cigarette flares, then fades. I walk to it: a razor sharpened with silence.”

Thanksgiving 2006 by Ocean Vuong

#Thanksgiving 2006 #Ocean Vuong #Quote #Poetry #Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[asoftepiloguemylove]

It's been raining a lot where i live and i thought about you. Could u do a post about rainy days? I would love it.

Ocean Vuong Night Sky with Exit Wounds / E.E. Cummings In the Rain; Complete Poems of E.E. Cummings: 1904-1962 / Mike Barr / Childe Hassam Rainy Midnight / Haruki Murakami South of the Border, West of the Sun / Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why; The Harp Weaver and Other Poems

#on rain #on nature #on loneliness #ocean vuong #night sky with exit wounds #ee cummings #in the rain #mike barr #childe hassam #rainy midnight #haruki murakami #south of the border west of the sun #edna st vincent millay #what lips my lips have kissed and where and why #the harp weaver and other poems #poetry #words #writing #poem #spilled poetry #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #dark academia #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote

[floatingsaturn]

Snow Theory, Ocean Vuong

#ocean vuong #time is a mother #poetry #poems and quotes #poems #literature #on earth we're briefly gorgeous #night sky with exit wounds #my posts