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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

-Oscar Wilde; The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Distance doesn’t separate people. Silence does.”

— Jeff Hood

Hubble Spots the Spider Galaxy by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Oscar Wilde

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

“One day she remembered that it wasn’t her job to make everyone happy.”

— Robin Lee

to live. to live forever.

𝖬𝗈𝗈𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗏𝖺𝗅𝗅𝖾𝗒 𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗌𝖾𝗌

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

🙌 mandatory happy ending 🙌

"A last request—grant it, please.

Never bury my bones apart from yours, Achilles,

Let them lie together . . .

Just as we grew up together in your house"

Patroclus to Achilles

The Iliad - Homer

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

The Mausoleum by the Phantom Painter

Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (German, 1839–1927) - In the White Mountains

Charles Bukowski, "young men," from What Matters Most is How Well You Walk through the Fire

Birth

I have my mother's rage.

The quiet rage, the unassuming one,

the rage which grips onto every molecule of your body,

until it claws and licks at your whitened bones.

The rage which sinks its sharp canines in you

which savours the taste of blood,

it craves it.

It lures your loved ones in carefully, it invites them into its stenching residence.

Sets out a nice cup of tea, or perhaps, the good tablecloth.

And when they think it's gone, the rage twists their necks,

and laps up the blood with its serpent tongue.

I have my father's indifference.

I sit and watch as it happens, smiling, as I watch and watch my house burn.

- e.u.

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preoccupied poet, maude phelps hutchins

— Mary Oliver, from Blue Horses, "Little Crazy Love Song"

A Sprite by a Lakeside Temple (Max Roeder, 1894)

Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Bianca Stone, from What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems; “God Searches for God”