revelation sunshine

soft-hearted girl with a pen and paper that thinks she’s a poet

[douxfee]

from strength and softness (2023)

Amazon.com: Strength and Softness: 9781662943737: Magnolia, Mallory: Books

[lifeinpoetry]

“a kind of tender petalled forgiveness comes in my hate for you / a forgiveness that knows how it is to hurt and hurt on when inside you turn off”

— Rebecca Tamás, from “\cunt hex\,” WITCH

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times? As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.” - Cornelia Funke, The Inkheart

[tamekam]

How liberating it is to pursue wholeness instead of perfection

[kafk-a]

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

[kradhe]

Ruth-Marion Baruch, 1967

[bostonpoetryslam]

Andrés Cerpa, “The Vault,” published in The Offing

[blxckberrying]

“To find, once again, all that I love: blue sky, sunshine, untrammeled thought, dignity, serenity, nature, poetry, friendship.”

— Victor Hugo, from a letter to Angelo Brofferio written c. February 1852

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

!!!

[sweetestsecrets]

“in the morning i’ll be ten feet tall solid gold not sorry for anything”

— Nicola Maye Goldberg, from “One for Blair Waldorf,” published in Electric Cereal (via lifeinpoetry)

[ldolised]

*falls in love with someone who was nice to me in my dream*

[anintimacy]

“You will outgrow something that was once a comfort; you will replace it with a song you hum in the soft parts of yourself.”

— Liv Walton, from “You Will Feel A Flash of Orange,” published c. April 2019 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[theotreptos]

Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” Waiting for God

[windflowerfairy]

Grief lessons : four plays by Euripides (translation by Anne Carson)

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[windflowerfairy]

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

[stuffedgrapeleaves]

Anis Mojgani, In the Pockets of Small Gods