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huariqueje

Farm Clouds - H.M. Saffer II , 2022.

American, b. 1942 -

Oil , 11 x 14 in.

metamorphesque

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

luthienne

any poetry or words to make me feel like i haven't overall failed in life? i've had two really awful days, full with different hard crises and tears. now I feel like i can't go back to a point where life seems full and hopeful again. my heart is permanently broken.

you haven't failed at life, beloved. certainly not permanently. right now it feels like nothing can or will ever be ok again—that doesn't mean it's true. but it feels that way. so let yourself grieve. genuinely cry as much as you need to. and even if you can't let yourself hope yet, leave some room for the possibility. right now you're deep in the thick of this heartbreak but you don't have to see what's outside of it to get there. all you have to do is take it one step at a time. one day at a time, one minute, one second if you need to. but things will get better. your life will be full again, you'll have hope again. i believe that. your heart is a precious and limitlessly expansive thing <3

this may sarton passage has always stayed w me:

it goes hand in hand w this james baldwin quote:

and this lamperti excerpt on failure:

& this ursula k. le guin commencement address:

“And when you fail, and are defeated and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing – instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

that must be paired w this maggie smith quote:

“We talk so much of light, please let me speak on behalf of the good dark. Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is.”

& this louise glück poem: