[springwagashi]

[nenan]

by Elviedesu

[nightlyquotes]

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

— Charles Baudelaire

[bebemoon]

laura benson’s “lily of the valley” + “lovers” pendants .

[jerseyclown]

you’re not evil girl you’re just lonely and no one has cared for you in a while and its making you crazy can you go get a fucking chai latte or something

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Naughty Stewardesses (1973)

[wvterways]

i will no longer be embarrassed i will no longer be a victim of insecurity i will no longer plague my mind with worries i exist i am allowed to exist i am allowed to take up space i will not let others dictate my experience i will live i will live i will live

[letterful]

btw archive dot org is SUCH a treasury when it comes to out-of-print poetry anthologies… i am having the time of my life, truly ❣️

[letterful]

some of my bookmarks:

against forgetting: twentieth-century poetry of witness,

postwar polish poetry (edited by czesław miłosz!),

poems for the millennium: the university of california book of modern & postmodern poetry vol 1 + vol 2,

essential pleasures: a new anthology of poems to read aloud,

poems that make grown women cry + poems that make grown men cry,

the oxford book of short poems,

a book of women poets from antiquity to now,

first loves: poets introduce the essential poems that capitivated and inspired them (so many literary greats!),

the poets’ grimm: 20th century poems from grimm fairy tales,

disenchantments: an anthology of modern fairy tale poetry,

arthur, the greatest king: an anthology of modern arthurian poems,

chapters into verse: poetry in english inspired by the bible,

killer verse: poems of murder and mayhem,

poetry in medicine: an anthology of poems about doctors, patients, illness, and healing,

a mind apart: poems of melancholy, madness, and addiction,

friendship poems + marriage poems + motherhood poems + fatherhood poems,

billy collins’ poetry 180 + 180 more,

good poems + good poems for hard times

the penguin book of… modern african poetry + irish poetry + japanese verse + hebrew verse + love poetry + sick verse (sic!) 

[femalepope]

2023

SPEND AS MUCH TIME OUTDOORS AS HUMANELY POSSIBLE

THROW YOUR PHONE IN A LAKE

WRITE HANDWRITTEN LETTERS TO YOUR FRIENDS

EXTRACT MEANING FROM YOUR DREAMS

PRACTICE SERENITY

CULTIVATE GOOD POSTURE

WEEP PROFUSELY

DO THE DISHES AS SOON AS YOU'RE FINISHED EATING

LEARN TO WHISTLE

WEAR PERFUME

[ijaazat]

lonely girls my beloved. i see you staying in your room, i see you standing in grocery store aisles feeling the sudden wave of isolation wash over you. i understand how badly you want and how bad that makes you feel. i get it. we're not alone. but we are.

[saintjoan]

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

[freaky-hacker-chick]

[ashstfu]

hands and books <3

[propertiesofjoy]

giovanni’s room, james baldwin

[stuckinapril]

girl it’s the start of a new day. girl the sun is shining and the breeze is blowing and the birds are singing. girl you can accomplish every dream you’ve ever had

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

[image description: a quote from the Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara.

‘it’s April  no May  it’s May Such little things have to be established in morning’]

[lullabiesinaglasswilderness]