wastedwinter

[wastedwinter]

Resurrection music,     silence,      and surf

No longer speaking Listening with the whole body And with every drop of blood Overtaken by silence

But this same silence is become speech With the speed of darkness.

Between        between the man : act     exact woman : in curve   senses in their maze frail orbits, green tries,      games of stars

shape of the body speaking its evidence

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Poetry:  Muriel Rukeyser, (I, II, V) from The Speed of Darkness

#murielrukeyster #muriel rukeyser #the speed of darkness #poetry #poem #body #bodies #weight #quote

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#bazluhrmann #bazluhrmann romeo and juliet #romeo+juliet #love #screencap #movie #embrace

[wastedwinter]

Osmar Schindler, Germanic warrior with helmet (1902)

#artporn #oil #metal #oilpainting #armor #OsmarSchindler #osmar schindler #knight #art

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La femme au couteau (The Woman With a Knife, 1969), dir. Timité Bassori

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Statue of the goddess Nike of Samothraki. Currently held by the Louvre Museum. 

#nike #victory #goddess #lourve #statue #greece #greek mythology #greek gods #art #return stolen art

[wastedwinter]

– Ansel Elkins, “Autobiography of Eve”

#eve #feminism #feminist poetry #garden of eden #grace of god #freedom #poetry #poem #quotereligion #religion #bible #quoteselfdoubt

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– Franny Choi, from ‘Catastrophe Is Next To Godliness’

#frannychoi #Poem #poetry #quotebpd #bpd thoughts #quoteyouth #quotespitting #change #growth #self actualization

[wastedwinter]

On his birthday.

#paul newman #paulnewman

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Edward Quigley, Gelatin Silver Print, 1930 Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

#edward quigley #photography #silver print #gelatin #lightandshadow #blackandwhite #Black and White #windowphotography #fabric #mfahouston

[wastedwinter]

[...] we lay on the river-bank, learning the lines of each other's bodies anew. This, and this and this. We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Madeline Miller, from The Song of Achilles

#the song of achilles #madeline miller #madelinemiller #greek mythology #gods #greek gods #love #lgtbq #quote #quotelove #selfhood

[wastedwinter]

I focused on my breathing, you were allowed to do that. You could even count the breaths. And then at the end you could just think about anything, anything you wanted, but after five minutes of counting my breath, I didn’t want to think. My mind felt empty, like the inside of a glass jar. I was appropriating my fear of total disappearance as a spiritual practice. I was inhabiting disappearance as something that could reveal and inform, rather than totalise and annihilate. A lot of the time my meditation was unsuccessful.

 Sally Rooney, “Conversations With Friends”

#sally rooney #sallyrooney #irish author #irish lit #quote #meditation #mental health #bpd #quotebpd #quotedepression #selfhood #disconnected

[wastedwinter]

Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

Alain de Botton, Twitter (2014)

#alain de botton #alaindebotton #childhood #nostalgia #memory #quote #quoteheartbreak

[wastedwinter]

She wonders if / he is listening too. The cruel thing is, she falls asleep / listening.

Anne Carson, from “Autobiography of Red”

#annecarson #poetry #anne carson #quote

[wastedwinter]

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Anne Carson, “Autobiography of Red”

#annecarson #anne carson #quote #mythology

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– Jamaica Kincaid from Lucy

#lucy #jamaicakincaid #jamaica kincaid #quote #echos #echo #heartache #poc #poc author #literature #mothers #quoteyouth #selfhood #quotebigquestion #quotebpd #bpd

[wastedwinter]

Mincéiri women and children and their decorated caravan on route to Cahirmee Horse Fair Elinor Wiltshire, Buttevant, Co. Cork, July 1954

#nli #ireland #irish #vintage photography #travellers #Mincéirí #Mincéirs #Pavees #irish travellers #an lucht siúil #the walking people #gypsy #caravan #nollaig na mban #elinorwiltshire #elinor wiltshire #irish photography #irish photographer #photography #Black and White #peoplephotography #history #irish history

[wastedwinter]

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and wept, for I didn't want to love one more thing in my life, didn't want one more thing that could make my heart break into a million little pieces at my feet. But all the same, there it was, and I could not do much about it; for even I could see that I was too young for real bitterness, real regret, real hard-heartedness.

Jamaica Kincaid from Lucy

#lucy #jamaica kincaid #jamaicakincaid #quote #bitterness #regret #grief #quotegrief #heartache #quotedepression #literature #poc #poc author