“Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”
― Ariel
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.”
― Ariel
“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Ariel
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Ariel
“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”
― The Collector
― The Collector
“For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge”
― Ariel
― Ariel
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