bookshelf

literature meme | 2/3 poems or poets                                      anne sexton

LITERATURE MEME: (4/8) short stories

LITERATURE MEME: (6/9) poems

“Name one hero who was happy.“ I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back. "You can’t.” He was sitting up now, leaning forward. “I can’t.” “I know. They never let you be famous AND happy.” He lifted an eyebrow. “I’ll tell you a secret.” “Tell me.” I loved it when he was like this. “I’m going to be the first.” He took my palm and held it to his. “Swear it.” “Why me?” “Because you’re the reason. Swear it.” “I swear it,” I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes. “I swear it,” he echoed. We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned. “I feel like I could eat the world raw.”

book cover variants: the bell jar by sylvia plath.

cover redesigns: howl and other poems, by allen ginsberg

REDESIGNED BOOK COVERS | The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 

“I will n e v e r leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.

If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that s w e l l i n g truth.

As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were e t c h e d into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.