Venetta Octavia, from “I Set It in Stone”
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toxic love • art by Roberto Ferri
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The International studio - 1897 - via Internet Archive
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I have a mind like ocean waves. Shifting always, too violent or too gentle, burning like salt water. Come too close and I worry that I will swallow you.
— Zoë Lianne, Black and White
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Death and the Maiden by Ana Sanchez
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“It was never you. It was always you: / your unutterable name, this growl in my throat.”
— Erika Meitner, from “Staking a Claim,” Copia
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“And he pressed his lips to me, like a madman. Searching for pieces of my soul in my breath.”
— Helaena C Moon @ http://hapless-hollow.tumblr.com/
(via hapless-hollow)
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Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
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Anaïs Nin, from Je Suis Le Plus Malade Des Surrealistes
﹙ Text ID: “You will never follow me into destruction, into death.” / “I will follow you wherever you want. I love the pain in you. There are worlds deeper down, each time we sink and are destroyed, there are deeper worlds beneath which we only reach by dying.”﹚
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“I look young But inside I am old And filled with the deaths Of other people.”
— Terry Moore (via alittlecurse)
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“Not often, but now and again there’s a moment when the heart cries aloud: yes, I am willing to be that wild darkness, that long, blue body of light.”
— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Whelks”, in The Truro Bear and Other Adventures (via 89words)
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Tracy K. Smith, from “Eternity”, Wade in the Water
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“How many times already have you seen me set off for death?”
— Laure, trans. by Jeanine Herman, from The Collected Writings: “Priests” (via intopermanence)
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“I could possibly be fading. I could feel myself growing colder. I could feel my eyes turning into dust, Into strangers, turning into dust. Turning into dust.”
— Mazzy Star, from Into Dust (via violentwavesofemotion)
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