[funeral]

[lifeinpoetry]

I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful:

Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women,” Winter Trees (via lifeinpoetry)

[pinkfemme-deactivated20210608]

stone butch blues.

[metamorphesque]

[brightdeadthing]

Andrés Cerpa / Fernando Pessoa / Penelope Scott / Richard Siken / Mary Oliver / Oscar Wilde / Clementine von Radics / Aracelis Girmay / Ocean Vuong

[brightdeadthing]

Cecília Meireles / Candice Ghai / John Hiatt / Leonardo da Vinci / Benjamin Alire Sáenz / Nguyen Thai Tuan / Susan Sontag / Molly McCully Brown / Zack Zdrale / Kabir

[wszyscymnienienawidza]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“The worse the state of the world grows, the more intensely I try for inner perfection and power. I fight for a small world of humanity and tenderness.”

— Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry written c. June 1942, featured in “Mirages,”

[twofacedharveydent]

[21evak-deactivated20181114]

close your eyes and what you see, you tell me what you see.

[quotemadness]

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)

[akanesource]

[voirlvmer]

You leave the country—you return to forgoing and forgetting your haunted version of memory, until you form a new beginning

Angela Gabrielle Fabunan, from “Threshold”, The Sea That Beckoned

[blakelivey-deactivated20211026]

Life isn’t fair.

[berkerguven]

MELISA ASLI PAMUK in carpisma

[thegayfleet]

[anjelia3]

[justineslupe-deactivated2022050]