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soracities · 10 months

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Anne Sexton ("The Truth the Dead Know") Charlotte Eriksson (Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself)

#q #quote compilation #anne sexton #charlotte eriksson #hope is the thing with feathers #been saying this to myself over and over for 3 years straight #m #x

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creacherkeeper · 6 months

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is this old religion, are we calling it love?

{sweet movie, alisha dietzman / @gaphic / tiktok / @iamalivenow / on earth we're briefly gorgeous, ocean vuong / @manywinged / these violent delights, micah nemerever / the reader, bernhard schlink (trans. carol brown janeway) / hestitations outside the door, margaret atwood / a self-portrait in letters, anne sexton}

[ID: ten images of text together in a litstack

1: Confession: I will think of you forever

2: a post by gaphic: It’s only tragedy if you convince yourself, for even just a moment, that everything could be ok, despite knowing it won’t be. Tragedy lies in ‘so close, yet so far.’ It’s avoidable because it would only take a tiny alteration to prevent disaster, but human nature is in the way- not maliciously, not knowingly, despite trying so hard.

3: a tiktok comment and answer: Are they lovers? / Worse

4: a post by iamalivenow: gay sex won't fix this. it'll probably make this worse. that being said don't you want to see how much worse it can get?

5: Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.

6: tags from manywinged: #technically they know and understand each other better than anyone else alive #but they communicate that in the most fucked up insane unnecessarily complicated way and think thats normal

7: I don't think you've ever felt anything that didn't hurt you. / We've found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?

8: "I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do."

9: Should we go into it together / If I go into it with you I will never come out

10: of course the love is there. / still, / still, / still.

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#litstack #web weaving #quote compilation #i love giving these vague taglines and then in the tags being like yes this is about blorbo from my games #its Funnee. when they escape containment. 2 me.#lizzie/onion/brandi #lost township #yes this is about the messy dyke girlbestfriend situationship everyone please join hands and pray for them thank you #characters who are either gonna get fixed or get sooooo much worse (or a combo of the two!!) and only time and the dice will tell #faun are you happy now. make me the onion/lizzie playlist.

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sprachgitter · 9 months

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on storytelling and repetition

“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.”

— Arundhati Roy on Indian mythology and folklore, in God of Small Things (1997)

“It was only once – once – that an audience went to see Romeo and Juliet, and hoped they might live happily ever after. You can bet that the word soon went around the playhouses: they don’t get out of that tomb alive. But every time it’s been played, every night, every show, we stand with Romeo at the Capulets’ monument. We know: when he breaks into the tomb, he will see Juliet asleep, and believe she is dead. We know he will be dead himself before he knows better. But every time, we are on the edge of our seats, holding out our knowledge like a present we can’t give him.”

— Hilary Mantel on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, in “Can These Bones Live?”, Reith Lecture, 2017

“So what makes this poem mnemonic is not just repetition. Rather, it’s the fact that with repetition, the repeated phrase grows more and more questionable. I’ve remembered “Come on now, boys” because, with every new repetition, it seems to offer more exasperation than encouragement, more doubt than assertion. I remembered this refrain because it kept me wondering about what it meant, which is to say, it kept me wondering about the kind of future it predicted. What is mnemonic about this repetition is not the reader’s ability to remember it, but that the phrase itself remembers something about the people it addresses; it remembers violence. Repetition, then, is not only a demonstration of something that keeps recurring: an endless supply of new generations of cruel boys with sweaty fists. It is also about our inability to stop this repetition: the established cycles of repetition are like spells and there’s no anti-spell to stop them from happening. The more we repeat, the less power we have over the words and the more power the words have over us. Poetic repetition is about the potency of language and the impotence of its speakers. In our care, language is futile and change is impossible.”

— Valzhyna Mort on Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, in “FACE – FACE – FACE: A Poet Under the Spell of Loss”, The Poetry Society Annual Lecture, 2021

#web weaving #quote compilation #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #Hilary Mantel #arundhati roy #valzhyna mort #excerpt #on poetry #on storytelling #god of small things

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awkward-sultana · 10 months

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"Being mutuals with Succession fans without watching the show is crazy r/n. I feel like a noble lord in a gothic novel who's going up to the attic to check on his secret madwoman wife. Hello darling, are you feeling well? Still eating the curtains, I see." - @weaver-z

@bitchthefuck1 / @sweetaspiesammy / @visenyaismaism / @evenlarksandkatydids / @finnicksannie / @brothercrush / @danishprince / @strangesmallbard / @shivroythinker / @toganvorce / @nicollekidman / @bitchthefuck1 / @shattteredvisage @park-bench-poet / @akajustmerry / @placid-style / @brothercrush / @youwillfindilluminating / @adampvrrish / @calvinandhobbes

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cowboylikesubai · 1 year

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loving too much, too hard that it consumes you💘

Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne / I'm Not Calling You A Liar by Florence + The Machine / Romeo + Juliet (1996) / Romeo and Juliet (1567) / hoax by Taylor Swift / Icarus in Love by Antoinette Brim / Love by Tina Chang / traitor by Olivia Rodrigo / she's in someone's locket, 1940 / unknown / @ (lovenotesuggestions) on tumblr / Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

#web weaving #web weave #quote compilation #on love #dark acadamia quotes #quotes #poetry #writers and poets #poets on tumblr #prose #art #on heartbreak #literature

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helenaredamancy · 1 year

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vorpalmuchness · 6 months

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Some of my favorites from @ladysansalannister!

Hope is a sword with no hilt// In another universe //What if I had not opened the door// All I ever asked of you// You are a great person but// In the darkness// Missing you is like// When they put you in the ground// I am more longing than woman// When they put you in the ground// All good things left with you// Grief is so heavy// So this is life//You can talk to the dead but// There is something rotten// I'm all sharp edges// I survived before you

#happy birthday to one of my favorite poets of all time! your stuff lives rent free in my mind #poetry compilation #words words words #quotes compilation #quote compilation #web weave #web weaving #ladysansalannister #Lindsay

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ilovery · 2 years

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1. Radiohead / a. Anne Magill, Never Let Me Go [1962] / 2. Mathem Shiferraw / John Green, David Levithan, Will Grayson Will Grayson / b. Rei Kamoi [1928–1985], Watashi no hanashi o kiite kure [hear me, 1973], oil on canvas, Kasama Nichido Museum of Art / 3. James Baldwin, 'Giovanni's Room [/ 4. Marina Tsvetaeva, On Love / 5. June 30, 1912. The Diaries Of Franz Kafka [1914–1923] / 6. Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines] / c. Anne Magill, shoreline / 7. Fernando Pessoa 🇧🇷, The Book of Disquiet/ 8. Margaret Atwood, Journey To The Interior.

#web weaving #webweaving #quote compilation #web weave #parallels #comparatives #compilations #literature #darkness

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femmeconomics · 7 months

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"The "ideal" female body was stripped down and on display all over. That gave a woman, for the first time in history, the graphic details of perfection against which go measure herself, and introduced a new female experience, the anxious and minute scrutiny of the body as intricately connected to female sexual pleasure."

Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Cat Person, Kristen Roupenian / Fleabag 1.02 / I Threw Glass at My Friend’s Eyes and Now I’m on Probation, Destroy Boys / The Love Witch (2016) dir. Anna Biller / The Beauty Myth — Sex, Naomi Wolf

#web weaving #quote compilation #the love witch #fleabag #self objectification #womanhood #quote #quote collection #rose post

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bleuetfane · 7 months

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marie at the mill, joanna newsom / pink in the night, mitski

#quote #quotes #quote compilation #lyrics #mitski #pink in the night #be the cowboy #joanna newsom #mary at the mill #bleuetfane #love #web weaving #quote weaving

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soracities · 1 year

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("I exist in two places: here and where you are")

Suzanne Buffam, "Vanishing Interior"

Sufjan Stevens, "The Only Thing"

Rene Ricard, "And Then I Tried"

#quote compilation #poetry #suzanne buffam #sufjan stevens #rene ricard #here and where you are #m #x

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inkxplashes · 5 months

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harrisonstories · 1 year

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George Harrison turns his amp back on after police attempt to stop the rooftop performance. (Get Back, 2021)

George Harrison v.s. the police

“In Cleveland, without asking us, two senior police officers marched on stage and stopped our show completely because they said the crowd was getting out of hand. The safety curtain was pulled down, and we were ordered to our cars. With the cops shouting, ‘The show’s over, fellows, this is where we take over.’ It’s never happened to us before. But that’s the trouble with American cops – they’re over-enthusiastic, whether it’s for stopping shows, hurling us into cars, baton charging the crowd or just asking 30 autographs at a time." - George's column in The Daily Express (1964) [x]

"We've been and played here in Sydney, and it was the biggest drag of all time. The stage revolves every three minutes and we have to walk right down the aisles like boxers to get to the stage. At the first house I punched a policeman because he was shoving me like mad and some kids had a hold of me all at once and I was trying to get off the stage. I was swearing my head off at one policeman (sorry), and later the chief came and apologised to me." - George in a letter to his parents (1964)

“I noticed a police car. It says, written on the door, ‘To serve and to protect’, and that really sort of buzzed me. I was starting to wonder like, who are they serving, and who are they protecting? I mean that’s where it’s really at because maybe they do serve and protect, but you know…themselves or? Like, who? […] That’s the trick you see. They say, ‘It’s not me. It’s somebody up there telling me what to do,.’ and you can never find like, who is the guy at the top? Because they shift the load, you know? Take a load off Annie.” - George interviewed by Don Hall and Charles Laquidara (1968)

“George arrived home, with Mal Evans and Derek Taylor in tow. All the detectives instantly leaped from George’s settees to converge upon their quarry as he stormed, ranting and raving, into his kitchen. 'The foxes have got their lairs,' George shouted, 'and the birds have their fucking nests, but man doesn’t have anywhere he can fucking go without people breaking into his house!' Ignoring this tirade, the Drug Squad, charging him with possession of cannabis, produced two pieces of incriminating evidence. 'That one’s mine!' George snapped. 'But I’ve never seen this one before in me fucking life! You don’t have to bring your own dope to me house, I’ve got plenty meself! And you didn’t have to turn this whole fucking place upside down, I could have shown you where the stuff was if you’d asked me!' Their only response was to ask George to accompany them to the police station. 'Well, I don’t care where the fuck we go,' George retorted, 'just so long as you get all these fuckers out of my house!'" - Pete Shotton on the 1969 drug bust at Kinfauns [x]

"The prosecution had stated then that Harrison drove his car on to the busy junction of Wigmore Street and Orchard Street blocking traffic. When stopped by the Pc, Stephen Gardner he drove the car forward with the constable walking alongside and twice refused a requestion to drive to the offside of the road. Pc Gardner walked forward and stood in front of the car and Harrison advanced the car slowly and it hit the officer's knee. He drove against the officer three times. Police spent 15 minutes trying to get his name and address, but Harrison, who was heavily bearded, was finally recognized. Mr. Polden told the magistrate yesterday that Harrison was trapped in the boxed area. He was driving his wife's Mercedes, and drove slowly forward. He heard a hammering on the car roof. ‘Mr. Harrison's lot has been to find people hammering on the roof of his car and he did not associate it initially with police action.’

The policeman believed the driver was taking no notice of his signal. Harrison had the car radio on and did not hear the officer speak to him. When the policeman ran in front of the car Harrison realized for the first time he was being requested to stop ‘for reasons quite obscure to him.’ He decided to pull in to the near side and started to turn not realising he was being discourteous. ‘He should have stopped, but it stemmed from a misunderstanding. That is why he pleaded guilty.’ ‘Mr. Harrison's nature is such that the arrogant level of driving does not really enter into it. As far as a man in his position can have, he has a sense of humility. He is not capable of deliberately driving into a police officer, causing him to hurt. He took the whole business impassively rather than arrogantly.’” - Guy Rais, Ban on Harrison (1971) [x]

"George gives me a souvenir as I leave -- a baton belonging to the Chief Constable of Liverpool, which GH took off him at the Liverpool premiere of A Hard Day’s Night!" - Michael Palin, Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980–1988

"I was 15 and then uh...had some little run-in with some policemen, and he told the policemen to fuck off. And that was when I realised he was actually cool, on my side, and not just a scary dad, y'know?" - Dhani Harrison, Living in the Material World

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awkward-sultana · 2 years

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Burning Your Boats The Collected Short Stories, Black Venus, Angela Carter / Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery / Unknown / Tell Me No Secrets, Joy Fielding / Stop the World and Get Off, Peggy Toney Horton / Grief, Barbera Crooker / Unknown / A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf / Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery / William Stanley Merwin / Maurice, E. M. Forster / Dear Would be Wife, Gala Mukomolova / Unknown / Anne of Avonlea, L.M. Montgomery / Anvita Bhogadi / Peace Like a River, Leif Enger / Unknown / Unknown / The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare / @honeytuesdy / October, Robert Frost / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot / Georgia Grace / Alexander Smith / Unknown / Insta: sarahkjp

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cowboylikesubai · 11 months

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this one is for the people who have never gotten over a single thing in their life. but most importantly for the girlies who got broken by people they didn't even date 😘😘

Natasha Trethewey / chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’ / Doc Luben, Love Letters or Suicide Notes / unknown / unknown / tumblr / Anais Nin, Mirages / tolerate it by Taylor Swift / You All Over Me (Taylor's Version by Taylor Swift / Ranata Suzuki / The Only Thing by Sufjan Stevens

#on love #on heartbreak #on moving on #web weave #web weaving #dark acadamia quotes #poetry #writers and poets #quotes #quote compilation #lit quotes #literature

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howljenky · 1 year

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Being known

#web weaving #quote #bee's post #the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #nona the ninth #words #hannibal #the song of achilles #being known #marie howe #chuck palahniuk #tamsyn muir #quotes #quote collection #quote compilation

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