Mahmoud Darwish, From Memory For Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

Andalusia - Lisa Marie Basile / Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn / Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer / unknown / Hate To Feel - Alice In Chains / The Lion In Winter - James Goldman / Letter To My Rage: An Evolution - Lidia Yuknavitch / Rupi Kaur / The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera / Amanda Palmer / Easier Than Lying - Halsey / Playing God - Paramore / Nancy Lee / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong / Enough - Suzanne Buffam / Antigone (Sophocles / trans. Anne Carson) / Untitled, Jasmin R. / When Doves Cry - Prince / I AM ANGRY BECAUSE OF MY FATHER - Halsey / Courtney Love prays to Oregon - Clementine Von Radics / unknown

when margaret atwood said “i'm sorry there is so much pain in this story” and richard siken said “there is no other version of this story” and mary oliver said “you don’t want to hear the story of my life, and anyway, i don’t want to tell it”

do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time

“I rehearsed it all night—the absence of mercy, as a condition to you who said when I am in the same room as your body I am        in a different room.”

— Kimberly Grey, from The Opposite of Light: Poems; “We Are Mostly Merciful”

Of all my dead it’s you

who come to me unfinished

— Adrienne Rich, A Woman Dead in her Forties

Louise Glück, from “Blue Rotunda”, Poems 1962 - 2012

conqueror, aurora

“You’re supposed to grow out of horridness, aren’t you? I don’t think I ever grew out of mine. Sometimes I think it’s still inside me, like something nasty I swallowed, that got stuck…”

— Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger (via antigonick)