/lit/ - Literature

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Also, I almost always read non–fiction. I'm not a huge reader of fiction— mood, quality, time, and so forth really have to align for me. I love good prose in non–fiction, though (and I think it is important). I also like poetry (pic related).

PAVANA DOLOROSA

Loves I allow and passions I approve:
Ash–Wednesday feasts, ascetic opulence,
the wincing lute, so real in its pretence,
itself a passion amorous of love.

Self–wounding martyrdom, what joys you have,
true–torn among this fictive consonance,
music's creation of the moveless dance,
the decreation to which all must move.

Self–seeking hunter of forms, there is no end
to such pursuits. None can revoke your cry.
Your silence is an ecstasy of sound

and your nocturnals blaze upon the day.
I founder in desire for things unfound.
I stay amid the things that will not stay.