Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes
Hari Alluri, from “Ancestral Memory”, After Kwame Dawes
i swear it is physically impossible for me to read a mary oliver quote without immediately having to hold back tears. “you do not have to be good” and “someone i loved once gave me a box of darkness. it took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift” and “i don’t want to end up having simply visited this world” and “to love what is mortal against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go” and “it is a serious thing / just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world” and oh fuck it’s happening again
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Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again
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Kill Manual, Cassandra Troyan
[ID: I should be kinder / some kind of softer / but I have no idea how to be.]
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“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”
- From “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
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