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“[The sea] says nothing, explains nothing, teaches no lesson. And still it is a good idea to lend an ear. Listening to this empty noise is nothing but living, staying within ourselves…”

— Jean-Michel Maulpoix, “They look at blue but will never know how to say it”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)

“She exists as in dreams. She has no sense of reality. She gets nervous because people are always interrupting her daydreams.”

— Clarice Lispector, from Selected Cronicas: The Egg And The Chicken

“axe echoes … distant / castanets, monarch shadows / fandango about”

— Greg Sellers, haiku journal entry, 11 September 2021

“Be careful who you trust, remember, the devil was once an angel.”

— Dean Winchester

moon song - phoebe bridgers // egon schiele, the mountain goats, @mountainqoats // great expectations - charles dickens // the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid // no children - the mountain goats // portrait of a lady on fire, dir. céline sciamma // christina rossetti // pablo neruda // unknown source // we have not long to love - tennessee williams 

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks, (…)

J.R.R. Tolkien, from The Hobbit  (via adrasteiax)

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“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone is being mean to you all the time.”

— Christine Arylo

“Silence crystallizes around his head like a halo of ice.”

— Margaret Atwood, from The Last Rational Man in “The Door”

“(…) memories drift & nod like belladonna kissing the ground.”

— Yusef Komunyakaa, from The Thorn Merchant’s Wife in “Neon Vernacular: New And Selected Poems”