when can i say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?
c. t. salazar / nosugarallspicenothingnice on pinterest / sierra demulder / naomi shibab nye
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on longing, romance, and every in-between.
References:
1: painting by Filippo Lippi
2: John Koenig 'The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows'
3: painting by Anthony van Dyck, 'Portrait of Mary and William of Orange'
4: uncertain, will be added once found
5: painting by Luis Caballero
6: 'Elegy for My Sadness' by Chen Chen
7: a fragment of ourselves returning v, 2018 by Beatrice Wanjiku
8: Richard Siken
9: uncertain, will be added once found
10: Tumblr post by @mothicalspoken
11: uncertain, will be added once found
12: Joan Tierney
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i want to live on his tongue, build a home of gospel
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems, Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor ( @feral-ballad ) | Farewell, Arthur Hacker | Death Wish, Josh Alex Baker | L’Amore, la Morte e Il Sogno, Roberto Ferri | The Torn-Up Road, Richard Siken | The Fall (detail), Alan Stephens Foster | The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar, Danez Smith | Scene of Deluge (detail), Joseph-Désiré Court
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when richard siken wrote "sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them" and ocean vuong wrote "i miss you more than i remember you" and taylor swift said "and i wake with your memory over me" and emily palermo wrote "i wanted to be loved so desperately that my fingers shook with it" and florence + the machine said "i love you so much i'm going to let you kill me" and robert desnos wrote "i have dreamed of you so much that you are no longer real" and franz kafka wrote "i can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time" and mitski said "all I need darlin' is a life in your shape" and and and
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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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love is a feast, but you’ve learned to abstain.
color - tina chang, love disorders and other old heartaches - ashe vernon, a table set for a feast - ernst czernotzky, a letter to frances and louise norcross (1872) - emily dickinson, norwegian wood - haruki murakami, caption is an excerpt from a piece by @deadwatered
buy me kofi?
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