"All our favorite poets are dead"

— Anne Sexton

“The Black Art” by Anne Sexton for National Poetry Month 

— Sara Teasdale, from Stars Tonight: Poems; “Sleepless,”

She was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist. In her own words, Lorde was a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”. In an African naming ceremony before her death, she took the name Gambda Adisa, which means “Warrior: She Who Makes Her Meaning Known”.

“Edna St. Vincent Millay tumbled down the farmhouse’s steep, narrow stairs and broke her neck on the first-floor landing in 1950.”

Anne Sexton

Margaret Atwood (via thelovenotebook)

Ednat St. Vincent Millay, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay (via existential-celestial)

i will be the gladdest thing under the sun! i will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. – edna st vincent millay

Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my pride I do not mix love with pity nor hate with scorn and if you would know me look into the entrails of Uranus where the restless oceans pound. I do not dwell within my birth nor my divinities who am ageless and half-grown and still seeking my sisters witches in Dahomey wear me inside their coiled cloths as our mother did mourning. I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic and the noon’s new fury with all your wide futures promised I am woman and not white.

Anne Sexton (via smakka--bagms)

- Audre Lorde

- Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde, from Meet in “The Collected Poems Of Audre Lorde” (via adrasteiax)

–Anne Sexton

Sylvia Plath (via thursdays-at-the-coffeeshop)