DONT BLOW THE ILLUSION [OF THE GAME]

by photographer robin waters.

[soracities]

Megan Williams, from "There Will Be Bad Days" [ID in ALT]

[weltenwellen]

Czeslaw Milosz, tr. by Robert Haas, from “Late Ripeness”, Second Space: New Poems

[rabbittongue]

[raincoyote]

[danewsea]

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Bali

[ourheatisgospel]

[vintagecamping]

A couple walks along Cannon Beach

Oregon

1988

[mournfulroses]

Xu Yunuo, from a poem titled "Little Poems," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

[quotespile]

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

[moishe-pipick]

[quotespile]

“You have to talk, otherwise your head turns into a cemetery.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Consider This

[canvasoul]

my witness is the empty sky

[mournfulroses]

Nina MacLaughlin, from Winter Solstice: An Essay, originally published in 2023

[mournfulroses]

John Keats, from a letter to Fanny Brawne, featured in The Selected Letters of John Keats

[mournfulroses]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Boris Pasternak featured in Letters, Summer 1926

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[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from her book titled "Night and Day," originally published in 1919