“Childhood dotted with bodies.Let them go, let them be ghosts.“No,” I said, “make them stay, make them stone.””
— Gregory Orr, from “Origin of the Marble Forest” (via ghoststudiesstuff)
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“I thought I could hone my mind until intellect and emotion were a single organ. The way a snake’s motion comes from the musculature of its entire body, and when it moves there is no part of it that has not moved.”
— Sharon Wang, “Mea Culpa Elegy,” published in The Margins
Anonymous asked:
Hey, since you're a cap moon (I am one too, Gemini Sun) how do you deal with emotional vulnerability or not being able to open up to people naturally?
aeneasx answered:
I try to deal with my emotions, it never works. I just push them away further. And then after a while it all hits like a rock and I feel like I’ve hit rock bottom. It’s hard having a Capricorn moon, it feels like we never care enough to take care of our emotions. And I have a very veryyy hard time talking about my feelings and emotions. It’s so hard, people think I’m strong as hell but the truth is that I’m actually dying inside.
“There was more medicine than suitcases … She took them to wake up, to go to sleep, to feel well, to feel bad, for everything, that’s how she was. She gambled her health and well-being against her poetry.”
— Antonio Requeni referring to Alejandra Pizarnik, when helping her move from one hotel on Boulevard Saint-Michel to another
“I sat there alone, and I saw the waves shatter themselves, and I watched the rain fall into the sea, and I watched the grey dawn breaking.”
— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932