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[Anonymous No.19422928]

>TFW parents cursed me sisterless so I will never have that poetic muse that makes the greatest poets
How do I cope?

>Spiritual twilight
>Stillness meets on the edge of the weald
>a darkling deer;
>in the hills the evening breeze softly expires,

>all hushed is the blackbird's lament,
>and the gentle flutes of the autumn
>cease in the reeds.

>On a sable cloud
>you sail drunken with poppy
>the nightly mere,

>the sea of stars.
>Ever sounds the sister's lunar voice
>through the spiritual night.

[Anonymous No.19423044]

>>19422928
Fall in love with someone who's never been born

[Anonymous No.19423064]

>>19423044
>>19422928
you both sound stupendously gay

[Anonymous No.19423133]

>>19422928
The intro parts of Sot Weed Factor by Barth might be of comfort to you…until that theme gets drastically and hilariously annihilated later on. I still think the chapter: a layman’s tract on geminology to be the best chapter of the book

[Anonymous No.19423144]

>>19423064
Can't help it

[Anonymous No.19423156]

>>19423144
Yes you can

[Anonymous No.19423313]

gayest shit I've read in a long time

[Anonymous No.19423318]

I am obviously refrencing Georg Trakl with that Poem.
>>19423064
>>19423313
Since when is brother-sister incest gay?

[Anonymous No.19423341]

>>19422928
You are gay but go develop a platonic relationship with a cute lesbian

[Anonymous No.19423342]

[Anonymous No.19423349]

Why are you people calling me a homo? I am not a homo.

[Anonymous No.19423354]

>>19422928
There's no easy way to say this but,
you may need to get your own mother pregnant.

[Anonymous No.19423382]

>>19422928
I don't know why I need to say this but YOUR SISTER IS NOT YOUR MUSE!!!

get a gf ;p

[Anonymous No.19423389]

>>19422928
I have a younger sister with whom I have a good but distant relationship. While I have no elder sister, I feel like I do.

[Anonymous No.19423398]

>>19423389
>>19423382
bros, what is it like to gave a sister?

[Anonymous No.19424520]

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[Anonymous No.19424616]

>>19422928
Of all the gay things that have come from writers' imaginations, the idea of a "muse" has to be the gayest.

GodDAMN artists are fags. And the ones that aren't are try-hard, insecure cringelords. (Bukowski, Hemingway.)

[Anonymous No.19424621]

>>19422928
I have a sister and she actually ruined my image of women. She made me realize what kind of slobs they often are.

[Anonymous No.19425453]

>>19423382
There is nothing better for an artist/writer then to look on his naked sister and know he can't touch her too much

[Anonymouṡ No.19425532]

>>19422928
>parents cursed me sisterless

Maybe you have a sister you don't know about. Confront your parents about her. Don't be put off by their denials. Force them to admit the truth.

Then embark on an heroic quest to find her. It's quite likely she'll be a beautiful-yet-fragile soul working as a crack whore in Mexico City. Scared, bewildered, desperate for the love of a brother she never knew she had. She's been holding on for ten years now. But how much longer can she retain her essential innocence, performing the most unspeakable acts daily for a few pesos and a roof over her head?

You alone can save her, anon.

[Anonymous No.19426591]

>>19425532
>Confront your parents about her
Surely they will understand.

[Anonymous No.19427054]

>>19424616
This! Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy opens up with the personification of Philosophy chasing away the muses, who like vultures, swarm about the depressed imprisoned Boethius
>While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable.
>And when she saw the Muses of Poesie standing by my bedside, dictating the words of my lamentations, she was moved awhile to wrath, and her eyes flashed sternly. 'Who,' said she, 'has allowed yon play-acting wantons to approach this sick man—these who, so far from giving medicine to heal his malady, even feed it with sweet poison? These it is who kill the rich crop of reason with the barren thorns of passion, who accustom men's minds to disease, instead of setting them free. Now, were it some common man whom your allurements were seducing, as is usually your way, I should be less indignant. On such a one I should not have spent my pains for naught. But this is one nurtured in the Eleatic and Academic philosophies. Nay, get ye gone, ye sirens, whose sweetness lasteth not; leave him for my muses to tend and heal!' At these words of upbraiding, the whole band, in deepened sadness, with downcast eyes, and blushes that confessed their shame, dolefully left the chamber.
FUCK MUSES
FUCK NYMPHS
SOPHIA SOPHIA SOPHIA PHILOSOPHIA

[Anonymous No.19428010]

>>19422928
I wish I had this sort of anime relationship with my sister, but I think there really is just a certain biological hurdle for you to see your real sister that way.
I like the idea of it 'in principle' -- fall in love with the girl you grew up with, but there is still something deeply forbidden about it. It's like your high school sweetheart with something extra to make it even more appealing. But it's very different when it's your real biological sister.
Doesn't mean you can't imagine & dream though.

[Anonymous No.19428676]

>>19427054
Does the poet find himself locked in the prison betrayed by his own king against his own best judgement? Does he feel abandoned by Philosophia?
No. Philosophy plays no role in poetry. It is specifically a muse that can cajole the word from the poet. Philosophy inhibits the poet from his actual work, while a muse chases her away and instead gives the creative impetus its freedom to create the highest poetry.
A sister coaxes the poetry out of the brother how no other muse could. Her grip is the strongest around him; the grip that gets every drop of creative juice out of him for herself.

[Anonymous No.19428706]

>>19422928
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Umm..What's this connection between poets and their sisters, and why are they his muse. What's the phenomenom called, or whats the literature on it? I've never heard of this before.

[Anonymous No.19428725]

>>19423398
i don't talk to mine. i have four of them. i live at home now but once i get a wife and a way to sustain myself i probably will never speak to them.

[Anonymous No.19428773]

>>19423398

My first sister is four years younger than me and the second is eleven years younger. It could be very irritating at times because them being girls AND younger made my parents hypersensitive to anything I did to them while also not giving a shit what they did to me. I realized when I got older that the perks of being the eldest male far outweigh any perks they had. Unfortunately, I also learned the reason my parents were so hard on me was because of how much my sisters looked up to me and craved my attention and support. I couldn't see it at the time and by the time I did, the first sister had grown up and I was living too far away to interact with the second in person. I wish I could go back and be a better brother but the regret isn't very strong. My family has never been the type to form close relationships like the ones anons seem to dream about on here. Still, it might've been nice.

[Anonymous No.19428778]

>>19428725

Is this out of resentment or indifference?

[Anonymous No.19428781]

>>19422928
I'm going to check up on my sister and see if I find her attractive

[Anonymous No.19428805]

>>19428781
>if I find her attractive
it's not a matter of "finding". It is that she is the greatest vexation who offers salvation after perpetual expunging of your inner most into her soul.

[Anonymous No.19428806]

>>19428781
I don't know, I don't think so

Mental barrier

[Anonymous No.19428812]

>>19428805
No, she doesn't do it for me. Unfortunate

[Anonymous No.19428822]

>>19428812
then you are no poet, or have your mind still clouded.

[Anonymous No.19429620]

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