October 2011
29 posts
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Oct 21st
14 notes
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Oct 18th
18 notes
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“Myrtle is about your head, you have bent and caught the spray: each leaf is...”
–  Hilda Doolittle.
Oct 18th
18 notes
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“But here a wild-hyacinth stalk is snapped: the purple buds—half ripe— show...”
–  Hilda Doolittle.
Oct 18th
15 notes
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Oct 17th
37 notes
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Oct 16th
19 notes
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sea garden →
Oct 16th
1 note
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“We wandered from pine-hills through oak and scrub-oak tangles, we broke hyssop...”
–  Hilda Doolittle, from ‘The Helmsman’.
Oct 16th
61 notes
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Oct 14th
10 notes
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Oct 14th
22 notes
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“The priests lead the peasants out onto an elevated plain. They plant them in...”
–  Zbigniew Herbert, trans. Alissa Valles.
Oct 13th
72 notes
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Oct 13th
35 notes
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Oct 13th
78 notes
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“To love this flesh, its rivers and valleys, its fruits, ripe or...”
–  Leo Yankevich.
Oct 13th
12 notes
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Oct 13th
96 notes
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“A sleep of beasts in the reeds after the embrace – then we shall stand against...”
–  Johannes Bobrowski, trans. Ruth and Matthew Mead.
Oct 13th
6 notes
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the sun sleeps in the mountains →
Oct 13th
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Oct 10th
23 notes
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Oct 10th
28 notes
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“Once I wounded him with so small a thorn I never thought his flesh would...”
–  Sylvia Plath.
Oct 9th
74 notes
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“You are the wine that makes me drunk, now I bleed in sweet dances, and must...”
–  Georg Trakl, trans. Jim Doss.
Oct 9th
24 notes
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Oct 5th
53 notes
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Oct 5th
86 notes
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“In the midst of all your memories there is one Faded away beyond recovering;...”
–  Jorge Luis Borges, trans. R. G. Barnes and R. Mezey.
Oct 4th
10 notes
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“Yet as I climbed down the rocky path, madness seized me and I cried loudly in...”
–  Georg Trakl, ‘Revelation and Decline’.
Oct 4th
7 notes
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Oct 3rd
22 notes
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Oct 3rd
38 notes
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“My body – all the bodies we are born with, decay in the dark and the light.”
–  Yongming Zhai, trans. Pascale Petit. 
Oct 3rd
2 notes
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“As I walked in the darkening garden, the hyacinth stillness of the night...”
–  Georg Trakl, ‘Revelation and Decline’.
Oct 3rd
19 notes
September 2011
49 posts
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Sep 30th
1,297 notes
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Sep 30th
28 notes
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“We bear within us the seeds of all the gods, the gene of death and the gene of...”
–  Gottfried Benn, trans. Michael Hofmann.
Sep 30th
17 notes
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“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither...”
–  T.S. Eliot.
Sep 30th
9 notes