Vladimir Nabokov, From Letters To Véra

"You are the altar cup and from this / I do fill my mouth... Martyr, my religion is love, is you."

Anne Sexton, "Sweeney"

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “In a dream”

you never get over your first love, not if its your best friend.

“Like any unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real when I’m not being touched.”

— Natalie Wee, from “Lonely,” Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (AMAZON / GOODREADS)

on women haunting the narrative, wearing a dead girl's dress, ill-fated love stories, a wavering border between life and death. ft. victoria winters & josette dupres, elizabeth swann & esmeralda de sevilla, mrs. de winter & rebecca de winter.

dark shadows 233 / dark shadows 5 / curse of the black pearl (2003) / rebecca (1940) / dark shadows 233 / "road to hell (reprise)" hadestown / dark shadows 157 / curse of the black pearl (2003) / the oresteia, t: anne carson / curse of the black pearl, deleted scenes / dark shadows 285 / dark shadows 214 / curse of the black pearl (2003) / at world's end (2007) / curse of the black pearl (2003) / dark shadows 245 / curse of the black pearl (2003) / the price of freedom, a.c. crispin / dark shadows 494 / rebecca (1940) / dark shadows 70 / rebecca (1940) / dark shadows 280 / curse of the black pearl (2003) / dark shadows 281 / dark shadows 425 / rebecca (1940) / curse of the black pearl (2003) / curse of the black pearl (2003) / rebecca (1940) / dark shadows 15

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Let Us Believe in the Dawn of the Cold Season”, Sin

conqueror, aurora

This is why some of us wake up          in the middle of night looking for saint—                    and maybe your saint is the moon, or maybe your phone, or maybe          it’s that moment you walk out the door                    to look up at the stars just to prove to the heavens you’re still alive.

— Kelli Russell Agodon, from “I Don’t Own Anxiety, But I Borrow It Regularly,” published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry

“Tell me, in storms, that you love me.”

— Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth; “That You Love Me,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

Adonis, from “A Bridge of Tears”, Selected Poems