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“Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Our heads are round so thought can change direction”
― Allen Ginsberg

“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952

“To feel anything
deranges you. To be seen
feeling anything strips you
naked. In the grip of it
pleasure or pain doesn’t
matter. You think what
will they do what new
power will they acquire if
they see me naked like
this. If they see you
feeling. You have no idea
what. It’s not about them.
To be seen is the penalty.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

“Desire is no light thing.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.”
― Anne Carson

“Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“we disappear.
It happens to me frequently. You disappear? Yes and then come back.
Moments of death I call them.”
― Anne Carson

“And we have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it, with the eyes staying in the head.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
― John Keats

“I have so much of you in my heart.”
― John Keats

“Thou art a dreaming thing,
A fever of thyself.”
― John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Life is divine Chaos. It's messy, and it's supposed to be that way.”
― Keats

“The air is all softness.”
― John Keats, The Complete Poems

“Love is my religion--I could die for it.”
― John Keats

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision”
― Allen Ginsberg

“senseless, senseless coughs of emotion”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“...I am talking about evil.

It blooms.
It eats.
It grins.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“I don't want to be a person.
I want to be unbearable.”
― Anne Carson

“I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing, and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true. Now I’m trying to dig deeper. I didn’t want to write these pages until there were no hard feelings, no sharp ones. I do not have that luxury. I am sad and angry and I want everyone to be alive again. I want more landmarks, less landmines. I want to be grateful but I’m having a hard time with it.”
― Richard Siken

“You play along, because you want to die for love, you always have.”
― Richard Siken

“You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.”
― Richard Siken, Crush