I’M NO GOOD
Only Angels Have Wings, Nicole Dollanganger / Jennifer’s Body (2009) / The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis / Cellophane, FKA twigs / You Know I’m No Good, Amy Winehouse / Skeleton & Demon, Brian Luong / The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde / 1x09 “Horse Majeure”, Bojack Horseman / Helter Skelter (2012)
i’ve got all this rage in me and i don’t know where to put it
@rbhvleo // paul miller “utopia” // “the book of promothea” hélène cixous tr. betsy wing // gillian flynn “dark places” // ginger snaps // @heavensghost // @vawium // @traumathoughts // lucille clifton “leukemia as white rabbits” // ahamkara lustre print @artofmaquenda // audre lorde
i am the knife and the wound
charles baudelaire // nicole homer, underbelly (2019) // unknown // matt maeson // nayyirah waheed // @heavensghost // @anmcrtist // emil m. cioran “encounters with suicide” // claire schwartz “shards with diffuse light” // richard jackson “basic algebra” // detail from “the suicide of lucretia”, 1525 by meester met de papegaa // “life of the party” olivia gatwood // emil m. cioran “the temptation to exist”
YOU WANT TO DIE FOR LOVE, YOU ALWAYS HAVE
excerpt from ‘homosexuality’ by frank o’hara / excerpt from ‘memory for forgetfulness: august, beirut, 1982’ by mahmoud darwish / excerpt from ‘when rome falls; bloodsport’ by yves olade / excerpt from ‘the dream thieves’ by maggie stiefvater / excerpt from ‘history of love’ by nicole krauss
“Give me blood and rage and a heart for horror; teach me to be tough enough to face this world still standing. Make a Fury of me.”
— Elisabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds
& if I were to forgive you (& I know I could)
who would be left
who would be left to forgive me?
— Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Afterwards,” published in Hobart
“Grief and rage - you need to contain that, to put a frame around it, where it can play itself out without you or your kin having to die. There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you - may cleanse you of your darkness.”
Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“Give me blood and rage and / a heart for horror; teach me to be / tough enough to face this world / still standing. Make a Fury of me.”
Elizabeth Hewer, from “Finding Ariadne” in Wishing for Birds
“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Mumford & Sons, “Lover’s Eyes”
“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself,”
Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
“…is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch
“There is love in me the likes of which you’ve never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We, hurt by ourselves, keen / to be hurters and keen / to be hurt back deep inside. / We, like weapons laid / beside anger asleep.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poetry of Rilke; “Antistrophes” (tr. Edward Snow)
“…she did not allow herself tears. When she did cry, she would explain her tears in this way: ‘I am not weeping, I am bursting with rage.’”
Gabriella Fiori, from Simone Weil: An Intellectual Biography
“Isn’t all that rage so ugly? / And isn’t it mine, still? / Good god, isn’t it mine?”
Ashe Vernon, from “Buried,” Not a Girl
Ada Limón, from “The Good Fight”
“What are we made of but hunger and rage?”
Anne Carson, excerpt of To Compostela
“If I was bound for hell let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We’ll see who hates best.”
— Jean Rhys, The Wide Sargasso Sea (via cactuslungs)
What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? Or: The Monstrous Beauty of Medusa
caravaggio medusa details
“my love is a graceless, heaving thing”
— — Faye Chevalier, from “blood II,” We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, eds. Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel
White Oleander (2002) /
Clarice Lispector, from “The Buffalo” / Lady Snowblood (1973) / Marlon James, from The Book of Night Women / Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) / Kiki Nicole, from “A Lot to be Mad About”
bite the hand - boy genius // seeing red - @/its_not_safe_here on instagram // cop car - mitski // i know the end - phoebe bridgers // unknown // wishbone - richard siken // sylvia plath // gleipner - walter ford // cursedsuggestion