“What I had once mistaken for death was, instead, a door.”— Rachel McKibbens, from “the second time,” published in Vinyl (via lifeinpoetry)
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Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, all dark, all romantic. When I say “romantic,” I mean a sensibility that sees everything, and has to express everything, and still doesn’t know what the fuck it is, it hurts that bad. It just madly tries to speak whatever it feels, that can mean vast things. That mentality can turn a sun-kissed orange into a flaming meteorite, and make it sound like that in a song. -
Jeff Buckley
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“But as long as I love you I am not free.”— Bob Dylan, Abandoned Love
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“I experienced the humiliation of knowing myself.”— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet. (via homo-infimus)
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“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”— Rupert Brooke, poet (b. 3 August 1887)
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“I’m obsessed with you. Utterly, willingly and wonderfully so.”— Michael Faudet
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Don’t stay where you are needed. Go where you are loved.
Lang Leav
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“We have this deep sadness between us and its spells so habitual I
can’t
tell it from love.”— Anne Carson, excerpt of The Beauty of the Husband
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