#complete poems

[derangedrhythms]

Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems: Spleen et Idéal; from 'The Alchemist of Sorrows', tr. Walter Martin

#charles baudelaire #complete poems #spleen et idéal #the alchemist of sorrows #poetry #excerpts #death #desire

[soracities]

e.e. cummings, from "o purple finch” (in 73 Poems), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #summer #e.e. cummings #o purple finch #complete poems #reading #typography #the dreamer #life everlasting #m #x

[beljar]

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems, January 1, 1993

#percy bysshe shelley #poetry #songs #sadnees #literary text #world literature #books and libraries #quotes #sad thoughts #dark academic aesthetic #classic literature #complete poems

[tasteforrot]

Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so?  No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it.  Above all, no one wants to pay for it.  For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity.

#Walter Martin #Charles Baudelaire #Complete Poems

[potatoesandsunshine]

everything u need to know about me can actually be explained by the fact that i read that poem about the serving girl wearing the pearls so they're warm for her mistress when i was like 11 and it rewrote my brain chemistry forever

like this Changed Me

#poetry #i spent like three months completely obsessed with this poem. the dots did not connect for 9 more years

[diracsea]

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader."

- Robert Frost, The Figure a Poem Makes

#robert frost #the figure a poem makes #quotes #complete poems #rc23

[indecisivegloom]

#e.e. cummings #if up’s the word;and a world grows greener #95 Poems #Complete Poems #1904-1962 #words #young

[hrokkall]

Mama gave me music lessons,

now I play the saddest songs

#ULTRAKILL #Ultrakill spoilers #<- God I hope everyone who hasn't played the update has that blocked by now #Gutterman #Gutterman ultrakill #Mother mother mother of me. Save me mother mother mother of me. Save me. Mother mother mother of me save me #Also shoutout to ME for writing a snippet that predicted this in DECEMBER of last year. That I completely forgot about. #It was not NEARLY as emotionally devastating as what was in the game though. Holy Shit. So I HAD to draw something for the real 7-2 poem #Also if you scrolled through the tags this far; caption is from an unreleased Mother Mother song that I've loved dearly for many years. #Hrokkall art #1k

[liriostigre]

Naomi Shihab Nye, “Sifter.” A Maze Me: Poems for Girls

#naomi shihab nye #a maze me: poems for girls #poem: complete #poetry #quote

[derangedrhythms]

The Devil jerks the strings that make us dance!

Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems; from 'To The Reader', tr. Walter Martin

#charles baudelaire #complete poems #to the reader #devil

[soracities]

Emily Dickinson, from Poem #1320 ("Dear March--Come in--"), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson [ID'd]

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #typography #march #emily dickinson #spring #dear march come in #the complete poems of emily dickinson #id included #m #x

[pencap]

someone once told me there is no demon more frightening     than a good man     who has gone to war.

someone once told me      the only things we get to choose      are a hero's death      or a villain's life.

so they said. so they said. so they say.

but no one ever told me      what happens when a good man       goes to war      and becomes the demon.

but no one ever told me      you can die a hero     and be resurrected     to a villain's afterlife.

- by sylvie (j.p.)

#spilled ink #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr #poetics #so the answer to #does this format still work????????? #is unfortunately a no #alas here it is again #this one i'm spitting out almost unedited #it's short and mostly a complete thought #this is pretty un-subtly bucky barnes right?? #pencap drafts

[tasteforrot]

A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success.  It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but a failure in the world’s estimation, and may do as he pleases.  The poet is a man on the sidelines of life, sidelined for life.  He belongs to the aristocracy of the outcast, the lowest of the low, below the salt of the earth.  A member of the most ancient regime in the world.  One that cannot, it seems, be overthrown.

#Walter Martin #Charles Baudelaire #Complete Poems

[llovelymoonn]

on november

nina maclaughlin the paris review: "on the first of november, the ghosts arrive" \\ emily dickinson in a letter to elizabeth holland (early nov, 1865) (via @flowerytale) \\ anna akhmatova rosary \\ philip jenks colony collapse metaphor: "november" \\ robert frost the complete poems: "my november guest" \\ ellis nightingale (@ellisnightingale) \\ @honeytuesday \\ nina maclaughlin the paris review: "the dark feels different in november" \\ l.m. montgomery anne of green gables \\ maggie stiefvater the scorpio races (via @metamorphesque) \\ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath (via @louisegluck)

kofi

#on november #month #months #november #on the months #on months #month series #emily dickinson #elizabeth holland #the paris review #nina maclaughlin #rosary #anna akhmatova #philip jenks #robert frost #the complete poems #ellis nightingale #honeytuesday #lm montgomery #l.m. montgomery #anne of green gables #the scorpio races #maggie stiefvater #sylvia plath

[strykerlancer]

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from “The Complete Poems.”

#Marina Tsvetaeva #The Complete Poems #words #poetry #literature #quotes #lit #out of my collection #abyss of words #quote #but then i saw you

[geryone]

The Renunciations, Donika Kelly

#quotes #quote #poetry #poem #donika kelly #id in alt text #POEMS THAT HAVE EMOTIONALLY DAMAGED ME #this entire collection was heartbreaking but this poem titled self-portrait with door broke my heart #shattered it completely