Dontecollins Quotes

seafoam*
posted a quote
September 1, 2017 7:59pm UTC

my [grand]mother moved out
of her body
decided it
was no longer worthy
it couldn't contain her laughter
she couldn't obey the house
rules of human
her spirit
that young & fresh fever
wanted to call the night her dance club
wanted to try on new clothes
stay out later
my [grand]mother now wears the world
dresses herself with the tall grass
blushes her cheeks with red clay
she laughs & a forest fire awakens
she laughs & every mountain bows
to her sharp thunder
she laughs
& each cicada begins to sing
last night Saint Paul was cloaked in steam:
fog traveled from some distant heat
no, i think
you've got it all wrong
someone must have asked my [grand]mother
to dance
—DEATH AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A SONG

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 9, 2017 9:33pm UTC

GRIEF LED ME ON A LEASH
TO YOUR LIPS.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
August 19, 2016 6:56pm UTC

I LOVE YOU: TRANSLATION:
I wouLD Love You:
translation: I have the
CAPACITY TO LOVE YOU
iF You wouLD LeT me.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
June 13, 2016 12:05pm UTC

I think of the closet and all the youth still splintered by its unruly wood. I don't have language. For now, I'll say: understand those who use the closet you've built them as flimsy armor against your bullets.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
June 8, 2016 6:35pm UTC

love can be the
water that grows
a thing. but love
needs watering too
Image is from weheartit, photographer unknown.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 31, 2016 7:06pm UTC

Don't listen to them.
You Deserve Love even
IF YOU HAVEN'T YET LEARNED TO
Love YouRseLF. You
ARE CAPABLE & COMPLEX &
aLwaYs aRRIvInG.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 9, 2016 2:04pm UTC

Please leave format credit to 1986!
I have survived myself. Again. I am learning to soften my inner critic. To dull the sword I wield against myself. To not use a sword at all. I am falling in love with the anthem of my pulse. The way it thunders, roars, fills me with good weather on bad days.
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seafoam*
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May 9, 2016 1:59pm UTC

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I can list the women who never promised to stay and the women who stayed until they couldn't. I can list the men who left because and because and because. But no. Instead I'll say: Grief is a country. Everyone here lives beside their body. Watches their self, we talk ourselves to the edge of a cliff then talk ourselves back home. Tuck ourselves into bed. We keep ourselves alive.
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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 7, 2016 8:17pm UTC

Preserve. Because you are your own ecosystem. Because some people take and take and take from the land. Without any traditions in giving

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seafoam*
posted a quote
April 22, 2016 7:35pm UTC

“
I'm trying, I'm trying. Some days my body is a broken receiver, a barbwire telegraph. You say I love you, I hear I'll leave you. Every time. Every time.
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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 30, 2016 6:57pm UTC

i am a quiet becoming. a
better me is on the way.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 30, 2016 6:46pm UTC

if only you could wear what you’ve survived on your skin. if only they could see how many times you’ve had to turn their vandalism into graffiti. if only they knew how much work that is. to reclaim your body. to become, again, a stable home. we, like the earth, stay busy in the art of resurrection. we, like the earth, make new and make new again despite unruly hands
— Donte Collins

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 29, 2016 9:19pm UTC

i think it's important that we all have at least one person who has time for our sadness. who gifts us language beyond ‘just smile’

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 25, 2016 2:04am UTC

when love comes, it rearranges furniture in the heart. and you can taste their name. and you can hear their absence

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 22, 2016 2:42pm UTC

STARE LOVE AT YOUR
REFLECTION UNTIL
YOUR FACE NO LONGER
SEEMS FOREIGN.
Image is from tumblr, photographer unknown.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 11, 2016 6:45pm UTC

IF BLOOD IS THICKER
THAN WATER THEN
LOVE MUST BE
THICKER THAN BOTH.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 11, 2016 6:29pm UTC

FALL IN LOVE BUT
DO NOT FORGET
YOUR NAME.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 5, 2016 9:34am UTC

Self love isn't limited to
yoga and green tea. It
isn't an aesthetic. It isn't
a commodity. It is a
tedious work, only your
hands can make.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 29, 2016 9:34pm UTC

I am not content here.
I want to break.
I want to leave.
I do not trust the wall paper.
I do not trust the floral design.
It is here to control.
It is here to hypnotize.
I want to pocket the horizon.
I want to skip the moon across
the lake of night.
I want to swallow the wind
and attempt to take flight.
—Ransom

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 29, 2016 9:32pm UTC

“
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell… Even though you are just a moment away.
—Donte Collins
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