self growth and realization

[nixscriptum]

[sessizvapur]

[nixscriptum]

[mournfulroses]

Mihri Hatun, from a poem titled "At One Glance," featured in Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

[remanence-of-love]

[dappermouth]

i can understand the trials but were the tribulations really necessary

[cbc-bb-deactivated20250802]

please be patient with me im from the 1900s

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, Little Birds

[petaltexturedskies]

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

[mournfulroses]

Marie Ponsot, from The Collected Poems of Marie Ponsot; "Matins and Lauds,"

[funeral]

Rosario Castellanos, "Entrevista de prensa"

[petaltexturedskies]

I think poetry is a way of carrying grief, but it's also a way of putting it somewhere so I don't always have to heave it onto my back or in my body. The more I put grief in a poem, the more I am able to move freely through the world because I have named it, spoken it, and thrown it out into the sky. Everyone has grief that they carry and sometimes we have anxiety and depression about anticipatory grief. The thing that I've found that helps is knowing we are all in this, someone has gone or is going through the same thing. Poetry helps us with that too. Writing. Reading. As James Baldwin said, "You think your pain and heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, and then you read.

Ada Limón, from an interview ⟡

[hauntedaether]

Has anyone figured out how to be a real person yet

[quotefeeling]

“Attention is the purest form of generosity.”

— Unknown

[thehopefulquotes]

“The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn’t be what’s wrong with you, but what happened to you.”

— Eleanor Longden

[petaltexturedskies]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, At Your Age

[aidashakur]