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#quote: alicia ostriker
feral-ballad · 1 year
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[She] fuses with the living natural world… Doves fly from the peaks of her breasts… She is either feverishly alive or hopelessly dead.
Foreword by Alicia Ostriker on Forugh Farrokhzad, from Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad
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weusedtobegiants · 10 months
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Damn it, honey, neither one of us is the victim of the other one, how about admitting that for starters?
Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover
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unsalve · 1 year
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in my insanity, i sharpened my teeth for you. 
pablo picasso / timothy joshua  / george seferis /  source unknown  / alicia ostriker / christopher bursk / natalie diaz / yayoi kusama: chandelier of grief (2016) / let’s scare jessica to death (1971) / mirror - stray kids / haruki murakami / fallen angels (1995) /  euripides’ hecuba c. 424 bc. / little women (2022)
(  kofi . )
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I'm a little monster
Monster, Red Velvet
Florence and the machine//In the 25th year of marriage, it goes on”, Alicia Ostriker//George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"//Hansel and Gretel, Anne Sexton//you are the apple, lady lamb
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kitchen-light · 2 years
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Whenever a poet employs a figure or story previously accepted and defined by a culture, the poet is using myth, and the potential is always present that the use will be revisionist: that is, the figure or tale will be appropriated for altered ends, the old vessel filled with new wine, initially satisfying the thirst of the individual poet but ultimately making cultural change possible.
Alicia Ostriker, quoted here
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dvadesetivek · 2 years
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Alicia Ostriker, Q&A: Insurance
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dailyvelcinta · 3 months
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We are excited to announce that VelCinta Week is on for another year!
Mark your calendars for March 7-13.
You can create fic, art, edits, gifs, moodboards, playlists, etc. There are no hard and fast rules-- take the prompt and run with it!
Prompts:
March 7 hold a grudge like it’s a hand fighting / stubborn
March 8: the shape you made me partners / change over time
March 9: knife in my teeth blood and guts / patching you up
March 10: home is the first grave family / talking about the past
March 11: i want to eat you whole passion / getting together
March 12: lovers alone wear sunlight alternate universes / happy endings
March 13: better in the next life the end / over and over again
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VelCinta Week 2024 housekeeping
I'm so excited for year two of celebrating Vel and Cinta! Here are a few things to remember for the week ahead:
Please tag #velcintaweek2024 in the first 5 tags, and/or @ this blog to ensure your piece gets reblogged!
If you post to AO3, consider adding your piece to the collection here!
We can't wait to see what you've created! <3
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We look forward to seeing what you create! Our ask box is open for any questions. <3
(under the cut is credit for the quote part of the prompts)
taylorfeusswriting on instagram
an oresteia— translated by anne carson
in the twenty-fifth year of marriage, it goes on by alicia ostriker
how’d your parents die again? by Fatimah Asghar
ode to an apple by pablo neruda
Unlove’s the Heavenless Hell and Homeless Home by e.e. cummings
last one is a common phrase and i didn’t get it from anything particular!
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fairmoephelia · 2 years
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HEY BIG STAR! dinah van vuuren + stars
tumblruser goodbyevitamin // lin manuel-miranda // matthew stover // alicia ostriker // tumblruser buttonduos // forough farrokhzad // emma hunton & krystina alabado // tumblruser spacetrashpile // tumblruser fairmoephelia // tumblruser buttonduos // kishi bashi
[image description: ten images of quotes and lyrics from different sources that read as follows.
1. “SUDDENLY—A BIG STAR FIZZING IN YOUR THROAT”
2. “but the stars don’t shine, they burn, and the constellations shift”
3. “even stars burn out.”
4. “i am burning in stars, i am feverishly filled with stars”
5. “but dinah is immolating, an asteroid that will, by definition never reach the ground.”
6. “i’ll be the star, you can be the horrified one.”
7. “when i was your orbit and you were my star, but now you’re a black hole”
8. “she remembers passion from dinah that burned brighter than she could ever imagine, brighter than a star and just as beautiful.”
9. “and stars, asteroids, which either burn themselves up or hit the ground and cause a great, big fucking hole. It was always me or someone else. the hurt seemed nonnegotiable.”
10. “[???] the stars love me”
end id.]
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shilohgreen · 23 days
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songs and quotes for the muse ♥ under the cut 'cause it's long~ tagged by @manufactoredxbyxdesign tagging @spookyagentfmulder @handgiven @pumpkinstabs @spiritdreamt @nefariuus @wasdeviant @creatureshrieks @crylamby @moldcursed @primitiveside @hauntedreality
five SONGS for my muse:
—small red boy by ajj. my resentment blossomed flowers. my bitter tasted candy. my misery was power. the truth in me grew brighter. my nature, and my nurture. no more shame, no more fear, no more dread.
—horseshoe crab by slothrust. i learned that hunger is a symptom of adopting bad behavior. i bit my tongue last night, woke up with blood on my pillow. i woke up thirsty.
—tongues and teeth by the crane wives. i've grown a mouth so sharp and cruel. it's all that i can give to you, my dear[...] and if you're fine with that, you can be mine like that.
—rule #21 - momento mori by fish in a birdcage. like a muzzled hound, i'm tied and bound. a wild beast, crying for release, i want my mouth so i may howl and share with the silence of the trees.
—wolfman agenda by shakey graves. shave me down and make me sweet. kill my appetite for meat. you can buy me a collar and tell me to stay, but someone's gonna love the wolfman one day.
five QUOTES for my muse:
"i confuse instinct for desire—isn't bite also touch?" wolf or-7 by natalie díaz.
"i'll do the startling thing / i'll have the knife in my teeth / i'll be the star / you can be the horrified one." in the twenty-fifth year of marriage, it goes on by alicia ostriker.
“nobody speaks to me. people fall in love with me, and annoy me and distress me and flatter me and excite me and all that sort of thing. but no one speaks to me. i sometimes think that no one can. can you?” by edna st. vincent millay.
"do you think it's easy, / not biting / the one you love? / try loving someone so much / your mouth is only at home / in the place where your teeth / meet the flesh / of your beloved. try / not tasting the flesh, / not taking in your mouth / the beloved, not / going all the way." teaching the dog not to nip by jim moore.
"she said, / when you see these horrible images why do you stay with them? / why keep watching? why not / go away? i was amazed. / go away where? i said. / this still seems to me a good question." the glass essay by anne carson.
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hollandwestbrook · 3 years
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TASK 004. MOODBOARD
next time I’ll do the startling thing I’ll have the knife in my teeth I’ll be the star you can be the horrified one
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brightdeadthing · 2 years
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Warsan Shire / Bluekid / John Collier / Gustav Klimt / Aria Aber / Mohja Kahf / Karen Walton (credit @mcblings​) / Alicia Ostriker / Carol Ann Duffy
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feral-ballad · 1 year
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hii!! I've been following your blog for a few months and while i enjoy reading quotes from poetry now and then during my mindless scrolls through Tumblr I haven't ever properly read any poetry book. Can you recommend me something for someone who's new to reading poetry? Preferably on diverging topics.
Thank you!!
hello, darling! these are some that i think are great for starters: 📖🤍
Averno by Louise Glück
Felicity: Poems by Mary Oliver (any collection by mary oliver, really)
Bright Dead Things: Poems by Ada limón
Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar
Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Magdalene by Marie Howe
The Imaginary Lover by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Girls That Never Die by Safia Elhillo
Mouthful of Forevers by Clementine von Radics
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weusedtobegiants · 1 year
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My single need to embrace you is also what you fear.
Alicia Ostriker, from The Imaginary Lover
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calyptapis · 2 years
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Alicia Ostriker, In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes on
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Cassandra, Florence + The Machine//the 25th year of marriage, it goes on”, Alicia Ostriker//Hansel and Gretel, Anne Sexton//George Seferis, from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"//Du Juan, Wallpaper China (2020)
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jimmynovac · 2 years
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My useless guilt. A girl who watches her father sink Under billows of anger must want to escape, but the truth Is I abandoned him.
— Alicia Suskin Ostriker, from “Schumann. Op. 16: The Greater Happiness”
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