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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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so I wandered devouring darkness

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

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oldwinesoul · 1 year

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“I call you and you don't come I love you and you don't come”

—Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems: Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); 'Approximations', tr. Cecilia Rossi

#poets on tumblr #dark academia #aesthetic #spilled poetry #words #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #19th century #vintage #love poem #alejandra pizarnik

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seamayweed · 1 year

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userdramas event 01: favorite — favorite childhood friends to enemies to lovers ship: seonhwi

whether you can survive or not is up to you, just like when i was deserted in liaodong.

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theoptia · 4 years

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Alejandra Pizarnik, from Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); “Approximations”

Text ID: I call you and you don’t come / I love you and you don’t come

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #selected poems of alejandra pizarnik #poetry #argentine literature #lit #miscellanea

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valarinde · 3 years

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I keep trying (and failing) to collect all my favourite poetry I’d like to use for gifsets and/or fic inspiration/titles in one place and whether I like it or not this blog is the best organised of all my private spaces. so.

— Mary Shelley, from a letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley (1814)

- Mary Shelley ― Mathilda

- marina tsvetaeva trans by ilya kaminsky

- Alejandra Pizarnik, from Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); “Approximations”

- Next: the message of fred clifton by Lucille Clifton

- Lucille Clifton, from The Book of Light; “Climbing”

- Sara Teasdale, from Tonight; Love Songs: Poems, 1917

- Adonis, ‘The Passage’, from The Blood of Adonis

- Nikki Giovanni, from “Ever Want To Crawl”

- Anna Akhmatova, tr. by D. M. Thomas, from “The Guest.”

- Margaret Atwood, True Stories; from ‘Earth’

- joyce carol oates

- William Carlos Williams, A Love Song: First Version

#scrapbooking #quote #titles #m #lets be real most of these just remind me of wx at the moment but Anyhow

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derangedrhythms · 1 year

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Night tattooed on my bones.

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books 1956 1960 #poetry #excerpts #night

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derangedrhythms · 10 months

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on your burning darkness

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books 1956 1960 #poetry #excerpts #darkness #o #b

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derangedrhythms · 2 years

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Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

TEXT ID: Lost in the silence of phantom words.

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books (1956 1960)#poetry #excerpts #silence

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derangedrhythms · 10 months

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[...] summer is a slow plague.

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books #poetry #fragments #killing the spring #months and seasons

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derangedrhythms · 2 years

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Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems: Poems Uncollected in Books (1956-1960); from 'Approximations', tr. Cecilia Rossi

TEXT ID: I call you and you don't come I love you and you don't come

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books (1956 1960)#approximations #poetry #excerpts #absence #l

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derangedrhythms · 5 years

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Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

TEXT ID: I work on silence make it flame

#alejandra pizarnik #selected poems #poems uncollected in books 1956 1960 #poetry #excerpts #silence

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derangedrhythms · 2 years

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Do you have any Quotes related to the Darkness or Nothingness ?

I was in the darkness; / I could not see my words / Nor the wishes of my heart. / Then suddenly there was a great light — / “Let me into the darkness again.”

— Stephen Crane, The Black Riders and Other Lines; from 'XLIV'

"so I wandered devouring darkness"

— Alejandra Pizarnik, Alejandra Pizarnik: Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

"Darkness honestly lived through is a place of wonder and life. So much has come from there."

— Robert Lowell, quoted in 'Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire' by Kay Redfield Jamison

"Kill the light! / I'd rather wallow in the dark."

— Charles Baudelaire, Complete Poems; from 'The Examination of Conscience', tr. Walter Martin

"You confide yourself to the darkness."

— Margaret Atwood, The Door; from ‘The Door’

"Darkness within darkness. / The Gateway to all understanding."

— Lao Tzu, from 'The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry', tr. Stephen Mitchell

"…the fear of darkness, like the fear of death, belongs to the ego. The ego loves the light just as the unconscious loves the dark. In light everything is simple and straightforward; the ego can occupy itself with the sense impressions from the outer world. When darkness comes the unconscious begins to stir."

— Rachel Pollack, from ’Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom’

"It’s magic, what / comes in the dark,"

— Francine J. Harris, from 'I think of her sometimes now, sometimes'

"I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me."

— Tennessee Williams, from ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’

"The ominous darkness shone only for us,"

— Anna Akhmatova, Seventh Book; from ‘From the Cycle “Tashkent Pages”’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

"Who ever said that Hell was darkness? / What fool said that light was good / and darkness evil?"

— Gwendolyn MacEwen, The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen; from 'Terror and Erebus'

"Now the cool tide of darkness breaks its waters over me."

— Virginia Woolf, from ‘The Waves’

"Turn on the dark, / I'm afraid of the light."

— Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic; from 'Batty'

"It darkened a darkness darker."

— Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters; from ‘The Beach’

"Dark, Dark, is all I find for metaphor;"

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Renascence; from ‘Interim’

"Some say that Darkness was first, and from Darkness sprang Chaos."

— Robert Graves, from ‘The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition’

"You, darkness, of whom I am born—"

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God; from ‘Du Dunkelheit, aus der ich stamme’, tr. Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy

"The dark places attract her as well as the light and she has the wisdom to know that not all dark places need light."

— Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects; Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery; from 'A Gift of Wings'

"We talk so much of light, please / let me speak on behalf / of the good dark."

— Maggie Smith, from 'How Dark the Beginning'

"Whoever said that light was life and darkness nothing? For some of us, the mythologies are different."

— Margaret Atwood, Good Bones and Simple Murders; from 'My Life as a Bat'

"I never knew it could get so dark. I’ve never known a dark that was as dark as this."

— Alice Munro, Selected Stories; ‘The Progress of Love’

"Darkness waits apart from any occasion for it; / like sorrow it is always available."

— Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from ‘Interlunar’

"Why shun darkness? / The night abounds with diamond drops."

— Forugh Farrokhzad, Asir (Captive); from ‘On Loving’, tr. Sholeh Wolpé

"…only darkness accompanies me. / How deep it is and velvety, / Above all, always familiar to me, / Like the leaf falling from the tree, / Like the wind’s lonely keening / Over smooth ice."

— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Uncollected Poems and Fragments 1957-1966; from ‘Four Seasons of the Year', tr. Judith Hemschemeyer

"Darkness is serious."

— Euripides, from 'Bakkhai', tr. Anne Carson

"It is a mistake to fight the cold and the dark."

"…I don’t resist the seductions of darkness."

—Jeanette Winterson, from 'Why I adore the night'

"Desire, Hatred, Life, Death came very close in the darkness."

— Jean Rhys, from ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’

"My heart wants to mate with the dark."

— Forugh Farrokhzad, Reborn; from ‘In an Eternal Dusk’, tr. Sholeh Wolpé

"Darkness that all night sings and circles stamping."

— Ted Hughes, Wodwo; from ‘Gog’

"You might think a total solar eclipse would have no colour. The word “eclipse” comes from ancient Greek ekleipsis, “a forsaking, quitting, abandonment.” The sun quits us, we are forsaken by light. Yet people who experience total eclipse are moved to such strong descriptions of its vacancy and void that this itself begins to take on colour. What after all is a colour? Something not no colour. Can you make a double negative of light? Would that be like waking from a dream in the wrong direction and finding yourself on the back side of your own mind? There is a moment of reversal within totality."

— Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; from ‘Totality: The Colour of Eclipse’

"Close out the sun, for I would have it dark / That I may feel how black the grave will be."

— Sara Teasdale, Helen of Troy and Other Poems; from ‘Beatrice’

"...I lived in the dark so as not to be blinded when darkness came."

— André Aciman, from ‘Call Me By Your Name’

"So tilting into darkness go we must."

— Lawrence Durrell, Selected Poems; from 'Seferis'

"A dark as deep / My love as a round wave / To hide the wolves of sleep / And mask the grave."

— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition; from ‘Your breath was shed'

"Put out that Light, / Put out that bright Light, / Let darkness fall. / Put out that Day, / It is the time for nightfall."

— Stevie Smith, Not Waving But Drowning; 'The Light of Life'

"Most people are afraid of the dark. Literally when it comes to children, while many adults fear, above all, the darkness that is the unknown, the unseeable, the obscure. And yet the night in which distinctions and definitions cannot be readily made is the same night in which love is made, in which things merge, change, become enchanted, aroused, impregnated, possessed, released, renewed."

— Rebecca Solnit

"Learn to appreciate the void"

— The National, from ‘I Should Live in Salt’

"If it's darkness / we're having, let it be extravagant."

— Jane Kenyon, from 'Taking Down the Tree'

#compilations #darkness #void #long post

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theoptia · 4 years

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