This is my first post, but I absolutely love this community! I am thinking about getting another tattoo for the first time in eight years and am trying to work out what I want/what would work. Ideally, I'd like it on the ribs, but I'm highly afraid after reading about how much it hurts. My first tattoo didn't hurt at all, but it's on my backside, ( Read more... )

I love Emily Dickinson's poems, letters, anthologies, biographies ... I chose the final lines of "I dwell in Possibility--" because I think that they speak to two of my favorite things about her work. It's at once about overcoming the limitations of a small presence through writing, and about letting go and "spreading wide" what might otherwise be ( Read more... )

just got this done today, emily dickinson :)

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I just discovered this community, and I find the stories behind everyone's tattoos really fascinating! (For the most part, anyway!)

I have 8 tattoos, but only one with any literary background. Edgar Allan Poe's Raven.


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favorite dickinson, cummings, and bukowski quotes!

alice in wonderland
rushmore
francesca lia block
edgar allen poe
emily dickinson
dr.seuss
shel silverstein
thanks!

My friend showed me this. And I think I'm in love.
On my 18th birthday I figured it would be a great idea to get the Emily D. poem that I've had memorized since I was, oh... eight years old?
The given title is "The Dual".
It's on a good majority of the right side of my ribcage.
It took three hours.
Three hours of awesome, painful, nerdiness.


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