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- “I’m courting chaos in me. But you want to shape it, don’t you?”
— Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts.
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I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
- Franz Kafka
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- “Mothering ourselves means learning to love what we have given birth to by giving definition to, learning how to be both kind and demanding in the teeth of failure as well as in the face of success, and not misnaming either.”
— Audre Lorde, Eye to Eye
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There is still a vulnerable part in my neck / that needs clutching, // but I don’t plead anymore.
Tiana Clark, “Gentrification” from Scorched Earth
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ALTKim Addonizio, from “Onset”
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- “Because I dived into the abyss I started to love the abyss of which I am made.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Idra Novey (via proustitute)
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
— Agnes Martin, from “Beauty is the Mystery of Life” (1989) (Artbook.com, June 6, 2016) (via Wait-What)
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The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
Carl Jung
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Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass
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in deed and in truth
