the pink room

: notes on a concussion :

[lifeinpoetry]

And if at the end of healing there is nothing?

— Brenda Hillman, from "the cave," Loose Sugar

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from a journal entry featured in The Early Diaries of Virginia Woolf

[theoptia]

C.G. Jung, from The Red Book: Liber Novus

Text ID: There is only one way and that is your way; there is only one salvation and that is your salvation. Why are you looking around for help? Do you believe that help will come from outside? What is to come is created in you and from you. Hence look into yourself. Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

[loneberry]

Alice Notley

[lovertm]

orangesnackcake

[mournfulroses]

Charles Baudelaire, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire

[mournfulroses]

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde

[shisasan]

"you have both; they must never leave you."

[noviceforever]

Friedrich Meckserep, Auditorium 1987

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva from Phaedra: a drama in verse; with New Year's Letter and other Long Poems

[escuerzoresucitado]

Hello Kitty yurt

[ease-out-the-clutch]

Me-yurt

[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

[redlipstickresurrected]

Nicola Samorì (Italian, b. 1977, Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, based Bagnacavallo, Province of Ravenna, Italy) - Cunea (detail), 2018, Sculpture: Black Carrara Marble

[feral-ballad]

Alex Dimitrov, from Love and Other Poems; “Love”

[feral-ballad]

Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; "The Dream"

[Text ID: "why couldn't it go on longer? / Because it was a dream."]

[feral-ballad]

Louise Glück, from Meadowlands; "Departure"

[Text ID: "The night isn't dark; the world is dark. / Stay with me a little longer."]

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student