anoestrus

[weltenwellen]

Chen Chen, from "weep ode #99"

[laclefdescoeurs]

The White Owl, 1856, William James Webbe

[thunderstruck9]

William J. Webbe (British, 1830-1904), The White Owl, 1856. Oil on board, 17¾ x 10 3/8 in.

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, from “Eurydice”, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

[greelin]

everyone shut up. let’s all do this together

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."

[tribblehugger96-deactivated2024]

so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.

[luthienne]

Tony Hoagland, from Application for Release from the Dream; "Wasp"

[europeansculpture]

Pauline Couble - Stratified Head, 2020

[secondbodies]

"I am being joyful in this very instant because I refuse to be defeated: so I love. As an answer. Impersonal love, it love, is love: even the love that doesn't work out, even the love that ends."

Água Viva, by Clarice Lispector

[theoldestchorusgirlintheworld]

Scout Niblett

[heavensghost]

Louise Glück

[fuckyeaharajukugirls]

[thephotoregistry]

Mateusz Kowalik 

[tristealven]

“To be in favor of solitude is not to be against community or friendship or love. It’s not that being alone is better, just that without the experience of it we block ourselves from discovering something enormously beneficial, perhaps even vital, to selfhood. Who are you when you are not a friend, a partner, a lover, a sibling, a parent, a child? When no one is with you, what do you do, and do you do it differently than if someone was there? It’s hard to see someone fully when another person is always attached to them. More importantly, it’s hard for us to see our own selves if we’re not ever alone.”

— Amina Cain, A Horse at Night (via exhaled-spirals)

[weltenwellen]

Simone Weil, tr. by Richard Rees, First and Last Notebooks

[huariqueje]

Asleep   -   Stefan Kürten , 2006.

German, b.1963 - Colour lithograph on paper , 55.9 x 75.5 cm.  Ed. 45

[classic-and-gold]

[weltenwellen]

Richie Hofmann, from "Breed Me"