And All I Loved, I Loved Alone

zegalba:

Mt. Tahoma, Washington (2023)

fromdarzaitoleeza:

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps/Carlie Hoffman, from “High Bridge Park,” published in Gulf Stream

strykerlancer:

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— Eeva-Liisa Manner, from “The Way The Seasons Changed.”

strykerlancer:

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary; 1939-1947.

weltenwellen:

Maggie Nelson, Bluets

derangedrhythms:

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Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from ‘Kintsugi 金継ぎ’

heavensghost:

And as I breathe, so does she

(Words from zephyrus by the oh hellos)

flowerytale:

Sharon Olds, from “Something Is Happening”, One Secret Thing: Poems

ololygas:

Basic August, Eileen Myles

itssomayaa:

itssomayaa:

“Everything is burning, my soul, body, outside, inside, heart, flesh. Do you understand? Do you really understand?”

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus written c. March 1952

“There is nothing about you that I cannot understand, that my heart cannot accept. I know now that I will love you to the end, against all pain.”

- Albert Camus, in a letter to Maria Casares in July

derangedrhythms:

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Natalie Haynes, from ‘Stone Blind’

tamsoj:

Charles Bukowski, “hurry slowly,” from Come On In!

itssomayaa:

“You don’t know what a wild, crazy longing I have, what an ache there is inside me.”

Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

metamorphesque:

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— Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning