HE/THEY, musings / poetry / art

The light that guides

Paul Benney
↳ Paul Benney

MACBETH: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.'


'Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art'
― John Keats


Hester Berry
↳Hester Berry


Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
we’re inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.
― Richard Siken, Scheherazade


“I am out with lanterns looking for myself”
― Emily Dickinson

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night



↳ Claude Monet // Harald Moltke

“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles


↳ Charles Wright

  1. “The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright.”
    ― Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night

  2. “I want to be bruised by God. I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.”
    ― Charles Wright, Clear Night

  1. “Not often, but now and again there’s a moment when the heart cries aloud: yes, I am willing to be that wild darkness, that long, blue body of light.”
    ― Mary Oliver, Whelks

  2. “And in my soul again there is emptiness and light.”
    ― Anna Akhmatova


↳ Paul Benney


I AM POPPIES IN THE FIELD RED AND COLD. I AM SLEEPING ALONE AND I AM LIGHT, I AM LIGHT, I AM LIGHT. ― Bella Betina


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