Too Many Words

"If we could get the hang of it entirely It would take too long; We might be surer where we wished to go or again we might be merely bored but in brute reality there is noJaden I think ur mom is eating at oak and pie rn road that is right entirely."

[weltenwellen]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

[inkskinned]

oh, i am finally old enough to know why my parents took so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee. what would i tell myself, at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too. take in the extra hour with your friend and her family. when you get home, write down every moment in your diary. one day you will be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you will turn the key to start your beat up little car engine, and you will look back over your shoulder. her hair will be blowing in the wind and she will be beautiful and you will be, for a moment, struck by all of it. what you will feel is so wide and nameless that it will engulf you. and you will think of being 14 and kicking her under the table in math every time you wanted to whisper something behind the teacher’s back. you will think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand whenever you wished, but you didn’t. and you will think about all of the people you could have lingered with. and you will wish, more than you have ever felt a wish, that the universe just gave you that - more time to linger. more time to say - i love you. i know i need to leave, but i don’t want to leave you. and when i go, i am leaving a piece of my heart that lingers too. 

one more round of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.

[bakwaaas]

“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey)

[thenationalyrics]

The Joyous Festival (1906), Gaston La Touche / Ada (2007), The National

[nevver]

The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein

[colombianomarica]

[portabellogna]

So I’m just going to leave this picture of an old Pablo Picasso here for reference.

[kingohats]

#I recognized the reference but had assumed it was more of a general influence however they used the same molding and everything#I’m sure it’s supposed to be more of a general statement rather than being about any one artist and I’m sad there’s no caption on her site#but Picasso was certainly one of Those Artist Dudes#which is to say he was an abusive douchebag to most of the women in his life (x)

[phantomthread2017]

[helloitsbees]

yeah fuck this dude

[cats-moss-gays]

Not to be dramatic but this is absolutely the right way to deal with creepy old men whose “art” is just pictures of naked women

[charismat1c-megafauna]

By the way if you like cubism but really dont want to look at Picasso, check out Francoise Gilot. She tends to do a lot of really stylized paintings of women but… Yanno. Without the abuse.

She’s also one of Picasso’s exes and consequently one of his muses. She’s spoken at length about her experience. And thus far, she’s had some pretty sweet revenge. She’s free, her artwork is simply gorgeous, and she’s still alive today (as of 2020) at the age of 98!

Edit: i would also like to add that Gilot was already an accomplished artist when she became involved with Picasso, and he completely sabotaged her career when she left him. He discouraged museums from showing her work, and he unsuccessfully tried to block the publication of her memoir, Life with Picasso. To my knowledge, she’s the only one of his “muses” who is still alive, so let’s maybe take this time to explore and celebrate the work of a woman who was overshadowed by her abuser.

[fleurison-deactivated20190824]

may you get a sign this week that shows you that you’re on the right path and that things are flowing and moving in your favor. may the sign be evident, clear, and direct

[adrasteiax]

“(…) I found her too little in love with me, and more in love with watching love. (…)”

— Nikita Gill, from The Moon Writes A Love Letter To Artemis in “Great Goddesses: Life Lessons From Myths And Monsters”

[quotefeeling]

“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.”

— S.C. Lourie

[lifeinpoetry]

that mythical phenomenon the body’s best at: moving on

— Dylan Krieger, from Soft-Focus Slaughterhouse

[luthienne]

“The impossibility of making herself understood in any way.”

— Frank Bidart, from Half-light: Collected Poems; “The Second Hour of the Night”

[dk-thrive]

“We are eroding and evolving, at once. Let this be my mantra to be repeated daily. What if beauty dwells in the margins of our undoing and remaking?”

— Terry Tempest Williams, Erosion: Essays of Undoing (Sarah Crichton Books, October 8, 2019) 

[literatureonline]

“I live in a place that’s only good for leaving, is all that needs to be said about it, and I don’t let myself look back. Doesn’t matter if I want to, it’s just better if I don’t.”

— Courtney Summers, Sadie

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Sometimes you have to leave where you came from to find your voice. And other times, you have to return to that same place to listen for a deeper understanding.”

— Ashley York, from the documentary Hillbilly (The Orchard Production Co., 2019)

[quotesfromall]

“And it that moment- for a split second - I feel it. How short that is. How soon everything changes. It’s strange, because good-byes are a thing I can understand intellectually, but they almost never feel real. Which makes it hard to brace for impact. I don’t know how to miss people when they’re standing right in front of me.”

— Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

[dreadedwords-deactivated2022031]

“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”

— Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[achelois-daughter]

the more i know of the world the more i am convinced that i shall never see a man whom i can really love

jane austen, sense and sensibility

[onesecondbeforesunset]

When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness?

Charles Bukowski

[rimbaudelaire]

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe