Aesthete Heart

'Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.' - Sylvia Plath • Memento Vivere • 27 •

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from "Of Love", Red Bird

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Joy Sullivan, from "(Luck I)", Instructions for Traveling West

[clementinevonradics]

“My daughter wouldn’t hurt a spider That had nested Between her bicycle handles For two weeks She waited Until it left of its own accord If you tear down the web I said It will simply know This isn’t a place to call home And you’d get to go biking She said that’s how others Become refugees isn’t it?”

— Fady Joudah, ‘Mimesis’ (via soracities)

[clementinevonradics]

“—who will press, now, his heart over my heart to warm me?”

— Louise Glück, excerpt of The White Series (via antigonick)

[5000letters]

[ar-rad]

enormous documentation

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse

[larmoyante]

“I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.”

— Jennifer Willoughby, The Sun is Still a Part of Me

[tkkatherineblog]

Inst @nycbambi

[tkkatherineblog]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“You have the sun in you, and the softness, and the clarity.”

— Anaïs Nin, from “The Four-Chambered Heart,” originally published c. 1950

[velvetmysoul]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“No longer shy about how I love. My eyes open. You are everywhere.”

— Rumi, from “Unseen Rain; Quatrains of Rumi,” originally publ. c. 1986

[thisisgoodfruit]

[thegoodvybe]

[likewildhorses]

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[tkkatherineblog]

Inst @iammadisonli

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rosi.lity

[soothingmask1]

“A lover doesn’t discourage your growth. A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow.’”