Hello there

Greetings from the fortress of solitude

[theimpossiblecool]

“I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.”

Michael Jordan.

[ellasword]

The most disheartening part of tolerating nonesenses for longer that you should have is that they come back to haunt you even in good days.

[stevienick]

Autumn Sonata (1978)

[ellasword]

"Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore"

—James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[ellasword]

"And when you have waited—has it made you sure?"

—James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[ellasword]

"Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it."

—James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

[lifeinpoetry]

What to do now is clear, and wordless. / You will bear what can not be borne.

— Denise Riley, from “A gramophone on the subject,” Say Something Back & Time Lived, Without Its Flow

[ellasword]

Howling

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[ellasword]

"The fact that almost everyone writes poetry when in love proves that the resources of conceptual thinking are too poor to express their inner infinity; inner lyricism finds adequate objectification only through fluid irrational material".

—E.M. Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, On being lyrical

[genevieveetguy]

Whitney Commercial, Suzan Pitt (1973)

[ellasword]

This is my favourite place to share pleasant-sounding incomplete ideas. For that reason, I just want to say that these gendered expectations have done more harm than good... to me at the very least. That being said, I am not up for neglect or false promises.

[ellasword]

Trying to reconcile with my soft side. That separation wouldn't have happen had I fully understood how key detachment is.

[ellasword]

EYES FULL OF STARS, HUSTLING FOR THE GOOD LIFE, NEVER THOUGHT I'D MEET YOU HERE, IT COULD BE LOVE. WE COULD BE THE WAY FORWARD AND I KNOW I'LL PAY FOR IT (8)

[ellasword]

[ellasword]

"If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"

Having a weird Tyler Durden moment at Jomo Kenyatta Airport

[ellasword]

An all-time bop