" I was the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes " Anne Sexton SEMI-HIATUS
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"Lucifer, the rebel, is more worthy than the lackey Gabriel, who submitted."
—Ricardo Flores Magón, 'Vamos hacia la vida", working translation
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BAI LING as Myca THE CROW dir. Alex Proyas, 1994
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“And the fire and the rose are one.”
— T.S. Eliot, from Four Quartets: Poems; “The Little Gidding,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
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he is like a snake that, fed on poisonous plants and swollen underground all winter, now his slough cast off, made new and bright with youth, uncoils his slippery body to the light.
— Virgil, The Aeneid (tr. Mandelbaum)
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“There is a strong shadow where there is much light.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen (via philosophybits)
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María José Cantudo in "Las alegres vampiras de Vögel" (dir. Julio Pérez Tabernero - 1975).
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And her mouth was red as berries or fresh blood.
— PATRICK COLM HOGAN ⚜️ The Death of the Goddess: A Poem in 12 Cantos, (2014)
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Carolyn Forché, from Blue Hour: Poems; “Elegy for an Unknown Poet,”
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And it is darkness I now praise. […] How hidden is the sacred, quickening in the dark behind the visible world.
— DANUSHA LAMÉRIS ⚜️ Bonfire Opera: Poems, (2020)
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She feeds him the iron wine of the Dark Moon, and he becomes Her property. As soon as he consumes Her soul manna/matter, She takes possession of him. The blood covenant is adamantine.
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There is something obscure in you. There's something that doesn't vibrate in you: It may be purposely—you don't let it: but I see it with other people, as well as with me: something reserved, muted—God knows what��it's in your writing too by the bye. The thing I call central transparency
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West written c. November 1923
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BAI LING as Myca THE CROW dir. Alex Proyas, 1994
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