Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos

For sure is death to all that’s born, sure is birth to all that dies and for this, you have no cause to grieve

[exitwound]

I miss when I was a fish. When I was bones. When i was ferns. Sky. Whales. bug. Peace. Occasional brutal death for the sake of the ecosystem. Easy life

[pathofregeneration]

“God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

[dunhilll]

[random-xpressions]

This and nothing else....

(turn the audio on please)

[shisasan]

Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus, originally published: 1977

[7pleiades7]

Apollo e Dafne (Apollo and Daphne), (Detail), (2020), by Roberto Ferri (Italian, born 1978), oil and tempera on linen, 90 × 125 cm (approximately 35.4 × 49.2 in), Private Collection

[therhodestohappiness]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Ximin Lin

[godkissedme]

It’s important to me that my nonsense remain high quality

[blurry-apollo]

the sea looked so pretty this morning

[roua-poemului]

“I want to consume the whole world, devour it, chew it to pieces, and spit it out again—fresh, terrible, beautiful, alive in all its parts, alive and singing.”

— Anaïs Nin.

[ofallingstar]

Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972)

[decepticun]

[rosieandthemoon]

Ruins in India

[heavenlyyshecomes]

there is a level of seduction that exists beyond the body. something less tangible, and perhaps more potent. anais nin understood this idea about how desire does not begin with touch but with language, perception, and the sharp electric pull of a mind that challenges and excites you. in her journals, desire is not just a physical hunger but a hunger of the intellect, an unraveling of thought before an unraveling of the body. to be drawn into someone’s mind, to feel their thoughts press against your own, can be more intoxicating than any physical closeness.

—Caitlyn Richardson, 'can intellectual intimacy replace physical desire?', in milk fed

[xveyra]

Some connections feel ancient, as if two souls signed a pact long before they ever met.

[theoptia]

Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959; May 13th, 1959

[stlowens]

Louise Glück, from “Twilight.”