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sunsmemories · 1 year

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i think of your mother and how she had whisked you away from my embrace that night in your room; how she had taken you from our solitude, in silence, and left nothing for me to speculate — i have realized, then, that this was how it would be when you are gone.

i have contested her, a lesser god but a divinity nevertheless, and in return, she had given me a taste of death.

— the deceits of skyros

#trying to get back to writing #the song of achilles #the song of achilles poem #the song of achilles aesthetic #patrochilles #patroclus #achilles #thetis #poetry #poem #ancient greek mythology and lore #ancient greek mythology #patroclus and achilles #tsoa #the iliad #love poem #love poetry

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daemonwhitedove · 4 months

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I will recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and deaf. I will recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times and I will love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.

— Achilles

#love quotes #poetry #quotes #love #poems and poetry #book quotes #literature #achilles #books #patrochilles #patroclus #captain skellington #song of achilles #madeline miller #fanfiction quotes

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rainreads · 2 years

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East of Eden, John Steinbeck.

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myfakeplasticlove13 · 6 months

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You think attention is love, that’s why you suffer so deeply

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moonstoast · 2 years

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—memories

the milk train doesn’t stop here anymore by tennessee williams // holly warburton // holly warburton // memory for forgetfulness by mahmoud darwish // before sunset (2004) // calling a wolf a wolf by kaveh akbar // teodor axentowicz // anne magill // the song of achilles by madeline miller

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cosmosofthoughts · 2 years

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words i wish were written for me

Including book quotes, poetry, song lyrics and everything in between, these are some of the words that make my soul wish someone cared about me so much they would write this.

“Because you are the only person I can talk with about the shade of a cloud, about the song of a thought — and about how, when I went out to work today and looked a tall sunflower in the face, it smiled at me with all of its seeds.”

– Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“My mouth hasn't shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn't stopped thinking about you since, well, before any kiss. And now the prospect of those kisses seems to wind me like when you slip on the stairs and one of the steps hits you in the middle of the back. The notion of them continuing for what is traditionally terrifying forever excites me to an unfamiliar degree.”

– Alex Turner’s Letter to Alexa Chung

“And I'd give up forever to touch you / 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow / You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be / And I don't want to go home right now.”

– From the song “Iris” by The Goo Goo Dolls

“I’m not a religious person, but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”

– Sally Rooney, Normal People

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”

– Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

– Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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asoftepiloguemylove · 17 days

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THINK I'LL MISS YOU FOREVER // SATORU & SUGURU

Anton Chekhov Complete Works of Anton Chekhov, excerpt from "The Doctor" // 劇場版呪術廻戦 0 Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021) dir. Sunghoo Park // unknown // Lemony Snicket The Beatrice Letters // Iain Thomas The City Rises and Falls // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) dir. Sunghoo Park; Shota Goshozono // Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot // Emily Brontë The Collected Novels, excerpt from "Wuthering Heights" // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) cr. Gege Akutami // Madeline Miller The Song of Achilles // Langston Hughes // Mitski Francis Forever // 呪術廻戦 Jujutsu Kaisen (2020-) dir. Sunghoo Park; Shota Goshozono // Silas Denver Melvin (@sweatermuppet) 1.15.22 // Marina Tsvetaeva from a letter to Boris Pasternak // 呪術廻戦 (2020-) cr. Gege Akutami // H.D. Loss // Mo Xiang Tong Xiu Heaven Official's Blessing Vol. 3

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nighttimemuses · 10 months

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"i read the book you were talking about" okay then kiss me

#light academia #poem #true words #beautiful quote #dark academia #books #reading #poets on tumblr #hozier #taylor swift #lana del ray aesthetic #phoebe bridgers #the song of achilles

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fixing-bad-posts · 7 months

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[Image description: A cut-up poem. Pieces of text are pasted on a blue and white image depicting ocean waves. The entire poem is bordered in white. Plain text is below.]

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love who ran away none can meet your pace

lost in your legs I want to give you an anthem

Perhaps for you a nation should fall

#on: the song of achilles by madeline miller #this used to be a right-wing lawn sign but now it's a love poem!#fixingbadposts #fixing-bad-posts #cut-up poem #cut-up poetry #magnet poetry #found poetry #found poem #the song of achilles #song of achilles #madeline miller #earnest fbp

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diioonysus · 8 months

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vintage illustrations + my tattoo list

#is from a bride book but the art is by john r neill #arthur rackham udine #also john r neill #from the 1914 book of shakespeare midsummer night's dream by i think william heath #it's by robert anning bell #the curiosities of kissing by alfred fowler but not sure if he's the artist #is in greek theatre costumes by iris brookes #in the book the golden fleece and the heroes who lived before achilles and the artist is willy pogany #in the book fairy tales by hans christian andersen and the artist is charles robinson #in line and form by walter crane #in the book kitchen maid and the artist is j. b. partridge #in the book the tale of lohengrin knight of the swan and the artist is willy pogany #in the book by john keats but idk the artist #in the book illustrators of montmartre by emanuel frank #in the book early poems of william morris #in the book the eve of st anges and artist is edmund h garrett #in the book home theatricals made easy or busy happy and merry #in the book the illustrated london instructor #in the book songs for little people and artist is h stratton #from alfred tennyson's poems and artist is eleanor forescue brickdale #artist is gerhard munthe #in arthur rackham's wagner ring cycle: the valkyrie #tiburtijnse sibille by jan luyken #by peter behrens #by shigeru hatsuyama #in the book devises heroiques by claude paradin #in the book price list of magical apparatus and illusions from 1884 #in arthur rackham's ring cycle: valkyrie (this is my newest tattoo i got!!)#in scapel: the 1911 year book of the woman's medical college of pennsylvania #in the child world by artist c robinson

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sunsmemories · 2 years

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he has woven his fallen lovers into flowers

and strapped them onto his beaming armour—

oh how he knows what mourning looks like.

oh how he knows what young love feels like.

perhaps it is of these reasons that he took you from me.

and now, my love, you join his lovers

in your death.

— of ashes and hyacinths

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occasionaloranges · 1 year

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@osmpranboo // moomin // lullaby - sleeping at last // richard schmid // atticus // paterson (2016) dir. jim jarmusch / i went to bed and i loved you - tom rosenthal // donald duck// the song of achilles by madeline miller // unknown // ribs -lorde // stranger things (2019) // @emil// unknown // watch you sleep - girl in red // the fairy caravan // stardew valley (2016) // in bed, henri de toulouse-lautrec, 1893 /1 @hegurgurk// master bedroom - andrew wyeth // memorial to a marriage by patricia cronin //summer kitchen by donald hall // jo - haley heyderickx // bbc merlin (2008-2012) // @obsob

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daemonwhitedove · 3 months

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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

— Patroclus, Song of Achilles.

#love quotes #poetry #quotes #love #poems and poetry #literature #book quotes #achilles #patrochilles #patroclus #song of achilles #madeline miller #books #relationship

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myfakeplasticlove13 · 6 months

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On lovers and names

#words #poetry compilation #quotes #web weaving #on love #webweaving #poetry #on devotion #web weave #poem #call me by your name #and I’ll call you by mine #on lovers #on names #on intimacy #the song of achilles #on tenderness #taylor swift #hozier

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sundaynightlive · 9 months

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right so I posted a poem on here recently about reading The Divine Comedy but I want to clarify when I said I “spoke to Achilles in the second circle” I didn’t make that shit up—in Inferno Achilles is SPECIFICALLY mentioned as being in the second circle of hell (lust) followed by the line “who fought with love to the end.” I only tagged Song of Achilles because I figured that audience might enjoy it as well.

All in all, Dante was Achilles x Patroclus truthing in 1321 and no one will ever take that away with me.

Edit: a few ppl have informed me it’s because of a lady on an island he might have gotten pregnant but I’m okay with being delulu <3

#dante alighieri #dante #dante’s inferno #the divine comedy #second circle of hell #lust #unreal earth #francesca #hozier #poems and poetry #patroclus #achilles and patroclus #achilles #the song of achilles

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depraved-raven · 2 months

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“i would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and i deaf. i would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. and i would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.”

— madeline miller, the song of achilles

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