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“I watched life and wanted to be a part of it but found it painfully difficult.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
Euripides, Orestes, trans. Anne Carson
charles baudelaire, les fleurs du mal
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We looked at the moon and the moon looked at us.
Helen Oyeyemi, from ‘White Is for Witching’
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I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.
Virginia Woolf, from To the Lighthouse, 5 May 1927
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D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Joanna Klink, from “Two Trees”
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Anis Mojgani, In the Pockets of Small Gods
LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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Robin Ekiss, from “The Bones of August,” in The Mansion of Happiness
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Diane di Prima
ursula k. le guin, the lathe of heaven
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“…the ability to bloom in sweet pain.”
— Thomas Mann, tr. by Willard R. Trask, from “The Black Swan,” wr. c. 1954
the best thing about a poem. "thanx for reading my damn posts in 2022." peace
Anna Akhmatova, tr. by D.M. Thomas, Selected Poems
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