[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Move to Oregon in July”, Instructions for Traveling West

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

[weltenwellen]

Sharon Olds, Stag’s Leap

[weltenwellen]

Hua Xi, from "The Past Still Needs Me"

[petaltexturedskies]

The first section of darkness is the densest, dear, after that, light trembles in -

Emily Dickinson, in a letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson, written c. November 1883, from Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

[killrockstar]

empire of the senseless, kathy acker

[sentimentalbeing2001]

The lily in the valley will wither. The flowers in the forest will decay. But this friendship will last forever, when all other things fade away.

March 4, 1885.

From a beautiful notebook I bought in the flea

[argumate]

I keep thinking this! very frustrating

[argumate]

fuck!

[ferociousxdevotion]

Zayn Malik by Nabil Elderkin

[beguines]

Carrie Fountain, from "Late Spring in the Mesilla Valley", Burn Lake

[marisatomay]

at the risk of being cringe with everything going on — this week, the last six months, the past five years — i keep thinking about that one quote from the great gatsby

[marisatomay]

“they were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

[marisatomay]

it’s just every day now, huh.

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, “When My Friend Is Low, We Walk by the River”, Instructions for Traveling West

[pollen]

Mairead Small Staid, from "An Improvement in Stairs"

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

Winter mornings are made of steel; they have a metallic taste and sharp edges. On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it's plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.

– Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

[met-islamic-art]

Palanquin Finials with Lotuses, Islamic Art

Medium: Copper; cast, pierced, chased, and gilded

Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453360

[imanbenerrabeh]

i have this one big “life rule” i gave myself years ago, to never regret being kind. but i feel another one has been simmering in my subconscious: when in doubt be brave. i was so unsure about doing this one thing for so long until i realized that this prolonged indecision could never be fully rationalized because at its core it was not a matter of understanding what to do, it was fear that needed to be then exposed to its source. not sure about confessing my feelings or moving abroad or meeting someone from the past or being honest? i can’t be unsure forever and there is no absolute right or wrong so i have to be brave. putting her into my mind drawer.

[feral-ballad]

Tishani Doshi, from Everything Begins Elsewhere; “The Art of Losing”