“Sometimes a person will believe (without being conscious of this) that she and God are alone together in the world and this will carry her through the loneliness of her life.”
— Fanny Howe, “Kristeva and Me”
Tag: loneliness
Julien Baker: “Me & My Dog”
The Be Good Tanyas: “Nobody Cares For Me”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dallloway
Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Muriel Rukeyser
There is a loneliness that fills the plain.
Total.
Lunar.
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God. (via xshayarsha)
Joseph Cornell,Toward the Blue Peninsula: for Emily Dickinson, c. 1953.
Box construction. 36.8 x 26 x 14 cm. The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photo The Robert Lehrman Art Trust, courtesy of Aimee and Robert Lehrman Photography: Quicksilver Photographers, LLC © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/VAGA, NY/DACS, London 2015.
“‘Toward the Blue Peninsula: For Emily Dickinson’ (c1953), a glass-paned wooden box with mesh framing a painted blue window looking out to open sky, references a deserted aviary and also the upstairs bedroom in Amherst, Massachusetts, where Dickinson wrote her poems. Like Cornell, Dickinson was reclusive, unmarried, untravelled. The bare room is at once a barred prison and a haven for contemplation and creation, and the work takes its title from a poem beginning, ‘It might be lonelier/ Without the Loneliness/ I’m so accustomed to my Fate’ and ending, ‘It might be easier/ To fail — with Land in Sight —/ Than gain — My Blue Peninsula —/ To perish — of Delight”.’
—Jackie Wullschlager
Little Bristling Soul 