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since shakespeare was taken from me by devious spirits distance has made the heart grows stronger, this means i appreciate his poetric grrove even more and wish every day to speak with purpose like one of his creations. altho, many mistake poetry as low frequency words when its simply speaking with purpose, with a meter and verse. not speaking for the sake of it, but the love of it. grounding onself in a deeper philosphy is also a marker of true oneness. so i recommend speaking poetrically but also gibberatically because thats the philosophical side, yin n yang n that.
May 20, 2024
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it sounds stupid and pretentious but every time I see one of those old school British actors recite some old Wordsworth poem i think damn you really did it!!! Or George Steiner has those beautiful stories about the value of Talmudic memory during the holocaust, or Pasternak standing up to Stalin during the Soviet Writer's Conference in the 30s surely to be arrested and making everyone recite Shakespeare's "I summon up remembrance of things past.." its so powerful!!! Recitation and memory has such strength to it, and I want to keep it strong!
I'm trying to learn a Blake poem rn and I feel such a special connection to every line when I learn them... who cares if im pretentious!!!!!!
Feb 2, 2024
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This is the greatest love of my life (and, in a sense, my career given my future MFA career, stay tuned), but you really should read more poetry in general. It's fantastic. okay yes "Instagram poetry" is en vogue hot garvage and frankly, makes me sick to my stomach, but poetry as an art form which contains and focuses experience, emotion, and attention, is one of the most profound things (ideally) we continue to produce. Poetry is, in a sense, something which moves towards a potentiality of art and writing in general in a current moment where it seems almost lacking.
What, then, can we do as poets or writers?
Feb 24, 2024
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Something poetic about it
Feb 17, 2025
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seriously, what a beautiful thing. i just emerged from one, oh a warm fountain of clean water. it's a real luxury. and a nice oil or lotion and a facial moisturiser. clean pyjamas. what a rejuvenating and lovely thing.
Jan 22, 2025
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i have decided us ballerinas of shuttle cocks must continue our fiery fight despite the beast of challengers(2024)
May 20, 2024
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โIt is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.โ
โย Oscar Wilde (and my library's wall)also i literally dont what it even measn)
'my life is a series of ritualsitic humiliations the likes of which would destroy anyone with a weaker constitution, but i beat on'
- rayne fisher quann (this is also my life motto)
'in a dream you saw a way to survive and you were full of joy
-jenny holzer
good luck diva!
Mar 24, 2025