You can't keep dancing with the devil

& wonder why you’re still in hell

[mournfulroses]

Alfred Stieglitz, from a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe featured in My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933

[quotespile]

“You can’t let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There’s always a chance you’ll want to use it later.”

— Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

[thepeacefulgarden]

[mournfulroses]

Stanley Kunitz, from a poem titled "Touch Me," featured in Passing Through: The Later Poems

[remanence-of-love]

[heavyweightheart]

punishing our bodies for society’s cruelty will not spare us the pain of it

[ojibwa]

[h0lyshift]

you don’t really find yourself until you get lost enough to need directions from your soul

[remanence-of-love]

[motojane]

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[lunamonchtuna]

— Clementine von Radics, from The Next Time We Talk On Facebook (via lunamonchtuna)

[thekashishverse]

I sometimes wonder if I am a museum of failure or gallery of trying?

[letsbeapoemtogether]

"How cruel to be touched by want, but never held by love."

Abhilasha.

[poetic-questions]

—Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

[metamorphesque]

Bone, Mary Oliver

[heavensghost]

from Autopsy by Donte Collins