i'm just here for the violence

That's people. We arrive, consume all we can and then leave. Like locusts.

[unheauxly]

[everydayaposter]

[a-joyfuljourney]

Esther Clark Co.

[foxesinbreeches]

To feel anything deranges you. To be seenfeeling anything strips you naked. In the grip of it pleasure or pain doesn’t matter. You think what will they do what new power will they acquire if they see me naked like this. If they see youfeeling. You have no ideawhat. It’s not about them. To be seen is the penalty.

Anne Carson, from Red Doc>   (via weltenwellen)

[metaphorformetaphor]

It was somehow completely impossible for me to rationally and sensibly grasp these simple facts. I saw nothing but messages: hidden, intricate, subtle messages.

Elisabeth Rynell, from To Mervas (Archipelago Books, 2008)

[anshelinasholie]

[invdious]

[nursery-deactivated20160926]

heres something for you to think about

me

[callmedoctorjones-deactivated20]

[misswallflower]

Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again.

Anna Akhmatova, “The Sentence”  (via weltenwellen)

[voutres]

i am forever wanting to feel something more

[contemporary-art-blog]

[poeticallyemm]

when she finally told the world that she was lost, it twisted and turned  until the ground beneath her faded and she was left falling, alone and unwanted.   i don’t think you realise how hard she had already tried.

e.m.b, a message to my father. (via poeticallyordinary)

[luthienne]

You listen and you know / you could live a better life than you do, be / softer, kinder. And maybe this year you will / be able to do it.

Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems, Vol. Two  (via weltenwellen)

[impactings-deactivated20240405]

Do not underestimate how easily I will remove you from my life if you make me feel insignificant in yours.

[openlylesbian-deactivated201709]

–but no no no I DON’T WANT TO BE LOVED, I DON’T WANT TO BE FORGIVEN, LET ME REDEFINE GOD INTO SOMETHING I CAN BECOME

from TELL ME WHAT COLOR THE SUN REALLY IS // h. yenna kim (via openlylesbian)

[xetl]

having a crow that was like fully devoted to u and sat on ur shoulder would be so cool. like think of ur black clothes and how much better it would look with just a crow on ur shoulder