baby feed me knowledge

"Once, I was a mystery unto myself,
but desire and hunger taught me
about my body."
- Traci Brimhall, from Our Lady of the Ruins

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"How lush the world is,
how full of things that don’t belong to me–"
- Louise Glück, from ‘Parousia’

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"Here you can praise the light,
having so little of it:

it’s the death you carry in you
red and captured, that makes the world
shine for you
as it never did before.

This is how you learn prayer.

Love is choosing, the snake said.
The kingdom of god is within you
because you ate it.'

- Margaret Atwood, from 'Quattrocento'