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All that has tamed me I have learned to love
and lost that wildness that was once beloved.
All that was loved I’ve learned to tame
and lost the beloved that once was wild.
All that is wild is tamed by love—
and the beloved (wildness) that once was loved.
and lost that wildness that was once beloved.
All that was loved I’ve learned to tame
and lost the beloved that once was wild.
All that is wild is tamed by love—
and the beloved (wildness) that once was loved.
━ Michael Collier, “Six Lines for Louise Bogan” (via proustitute)
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
━ T. S. Eliot, from “East Coker” in The Four Quartets (via proustitute)
Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.
and affirm that it is fitting
and delicious to lose everything.
━ Donald Hall, from “Affirmation” (via proustitute)
