#english literature

[squeegin]

Time to stab Caesar again..🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

[antleredheretic]

I am- I am- I am.

[apurvaxsood]

You look so gorgeous as you smile darling, but there's violence in your beauty- it sparks electricity that races through my bones.

-Apurva

[moonkissedletters]

- Unknown

[whocriedroses]

i watched his smile drift through the room like moonlight spilling through half-opened window, the last flicker of day refusing to end in the restless wind tonight, the space between heartbeats until it felt like not just the kind of feeling that knocked the air from your lungs—not the kind that steals the weight of breath from your body forgot to breathe it back in like a string pulled too tight, curling up in between sunken hollow, somewhere at the back of your throat too quiet to outcry at a push. it's clearly not the kind of pain to bear the weight of something deep down your chest, at all.

but it felt like the kind that crept in slowly by the way he pulled me into his heartbeat threading in every quiet moment we share, and the space between his breaths—our breaths, the surface of our skins touching, the air, the room, the quiet surrouding poured into me like the last light of dusk tonight, curled up along the seam of our breaths where words would only fray at the edges.

and the edges, they folded into this paper unfolding themselves with the thoughts of you in the most innocent way possible. because desire was never meant to be compared to the aftertaste of sweetness, and i refused to define you as a something to be tasted, let alone a leftover of sweetness. the sweetness itself, it begs to be consumed—a hunger that seeks to devour, to be finished, in a fleeting moment that bring things to a close as quickly as it came.

so, it's not that i don't want you entirely, but what i want is to want you in a way that doesn't steal from you. in the most innocent way possible.

i love you.

— Lorien Ash, "K"

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[a-j-s-the-only]

then I examined my own heart, and there you were. never, I fear, to be removed.

-Jane Austen

[bluatorto]

Clerval!

[oscarwildin]

i love you neil perry please don’t die

[elemwire]

Emotionless

A burst of feeling I expected,

A whimper, a tear, something moving,

I laid eyes on my aunt, suffering,

A battlefield of disease, a torment,

Nothing I could do, no sadness, empty,

No words, a reminder, all must go back,

Tried to force a tear, did I really love?

Monster. Wanting to leave, yet glued,

By what? Expectations? Formality? Lies?

All of it, but no sadness, no sense of loss,

Someone so dear, eyes full of love once,

Now one infected, the other, lifeless,

Death would be freedom, end her pain,

Facades breaking down, conflict, schedules,

Tickets booked, now I see Kafka's bug,

The one's closest being farthest away,

Hoping for an end to end inconvenience,

All this around me, yet empty within,

The nurse looks at me as I finally manage,

A tear, fake, yes, occasion calls for it,

Walked away. Won't look back, can't,

A reminder, all will leave, so will you.

-Sebastian Devassy Cherian

@elemwire

[antleredheretic]

What’s wrong with me

[starcamus]

i hope i never stop learning. i want to always be studying. the goal is to attain a level of disgustingly educated.

[apurvaxsood]

It's just... those dumb, impossible things you think of in love! Like I would knit my arteries into a scarf if you tell me you're cold.

-Apurva

[thedeadpoetsraven]

Why love what you will lose? There is nothing else to love.

— Louise Glück, The Triumph of Achilles

[poetryforall]

[victusinveritas]

Comics by Rose Anne Prevec.