Raphael Delarue

lifeinpoetry: I wished to welcome back     feeling, that whole mansion of trembling rooms, wished to break every window, let the light storm through.      On my knees I wished for tempest, for rack and screw. I asked for churchless pleasures to disturb my     numb comfort, — Traci Brimhall, from “Dearest Thanatos,” published in American […]

ieatfashionnotfood: “There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” — Rumi (via thecalminside)

illuminosity: “I enter the throbbing darkness to learn how to become light.” — Adonis, from ‘Celebrating Abu Tammam’, Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)