[metamorphesque]

'things there are no words for, but should be', tatheve simonyan

[achillesinhighheels]

[heavensghost]

Words by Andrea Gibson

[2productive]

[neoyorzapoteca]

Celine Nguyen

[vintage-tigre]

To be loved is to be changed

[enchantedbook]

'The Three Fates' by Alexander Rothaug, 1910

[elwenyere]

“You knew, didn’t you, how I needed your language and the mind that formed it? How I relied on your fierce courage to tame wildernesses for me? How strengthened I was by the certainty that came from knowing you would never hurt me? You knew, didn’t you, how I loved your love? You knew. This then is no calamity. No. This is jubilee.”

– Toni Morrison’s eulogy for James Baldwin

[weltenwellen]

Erika L. Sánchez, from "Departure"

[achillesinhighheels]

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the afterword

[shisasan]

Love moves like a shadow beside us, not seeking the feverish light but to whisper softly that even in our darkest hours, we are held, never cast to wander the abyss without a hand to hold.

🜍 ⟡ ⟢

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, from “The Geography of Moutains,” in Startlement: New and Selected Poems

[shisasan]

𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟻 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: Slept badly, miserably, tormenting headaches in the morning, but a free day. END ID]

[shisasan]

Let someone else seek out the portals That I was fated not to find.

29 September 1902 Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921), Selected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Julia Liu, from "Exit Wound"

[philosophybits]

“The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, “Letter to Henry Gabell (16 April 1787)”

[shisasan]

I believe us to be allies in the difficult mysteries of living and dying, two people united in that sense of the eternal which binds human beings together.

August 8, 1903 [From Lou Andreas-Salomé to Rainer Maria Rilke] Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)