[human-voices]

“I want to sleep awhile, awhile, a minute, a century.”

— Federico García Lorca, from ‘Gacela of the Dark Death’ (via soracities)

[human-voices]

“You will not recognize me. This time, I put my pieces back differently.”

— Malia Makana, Like Differently Love  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

[journalofanobody]

“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then.”

— T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via the-book-diaries)

[jazbaaati]

“And the past, as always, stretched before us,

still, complex, impenetrable.”

Louise Glück, The Garden.

[human-voices]

“Birth is agony, life is hard, death is cruel. Don’t ask me to explain it.”

— Rei Mori, Giri/Haji

[human-voices]

“I am not a saint

Because I keep trying to be a sound, something

You will remember

Once you’ve lived enough not to believe in heaven.”

- Jericho Brown, Deliverance

Deliverance

Though I have not shined shoes for it,Have not suffocated myself handsomeIn a tight, bright tie, Sunday comesAgain to me as it did in childh

[howifeltabouthim]

Most of us are safe. If you’re not a delirious dream the gods are having, if your beauty doesn’t trouble the constellations, nobody’s going to cast a spell on you.

Michael Cunningham, from A Wild Swan (via howifeltabouthim)

[asyipyip]

I can’t get over this lmaooo

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

whoever invented stuffed animals really just understood whats important in life. sometimes you just wanna hold a guy

[human-voices]

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”

— Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “The Perjured City,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“In October I confessed my love for her, and she allowed me to kiss her.”

— Ivan Bunin, from The Collected Short Stories; “The Elagin Affair,” wr. c. 1933

[journalofanobody]

“And everything’s holy– everything, even me.”

— John Steinbeck, from The Grapes of Wrath (via words-and-coffee)

[human-voices]

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

Edvard Munch

[wanderlusteurope]

[citizenshipandsocialjustice]

[eilonnwy]

I agree, but you also gotta know the airport shut down was one of the few ways rich people were actually impacted. Suddenly rich business people can’t travel or vacation? You know they didn’t give a fuck about employees without pay until the moment their private jet travel was interrupted. And who does trump work for more than anyone else? Rich people.

[weeniebagel]

yo whatever happened to gladiators n coliseums n shit? when did we decide that blood sports were bad? im tryna see two men kill each other on pay per view

[weeniebagel]

dont worry im a feminist id pay to see two women kill each other as well

[weeniebagel]

political correctness killed the gladiatorial arena and its disgusting. fucking millennials (400 AD)

[yiffmaster]

gladiators were actually very skilled and expensive to train (not to mention charismatic and popular), so they rarely fought to the death actually; it was more of a… ritualized theatrical combat

the modern equivalent you’re looking for is professional wrestling

[calliopecoyote]

Ok but when are professional wrestlers gonna be throwing nets and shit and using swords???

[yugirimistwalker]

what is a chair if not a modern day sword

[yiffmaster]

what is a table but a domestic net

[catchymemes]