all's fair in love & poetry

xviii

[folkloreromancr]

sally rooney's "i would never pretend to not know you, connell" + taylor jenkins reid's "if you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you" + taylor swift's "i know my love should be celebrated but you tolerate it"

[ashstfu]

propaganda i am not falling for:

always moving on. some goodbyes need to rot a little. some griefs need to be held in the mouth like a stone.

beauty defined by algorithms. beauty exists in crow feet and smile lines

pretending to be chill. i’m not chill. i care deeply and inconveniently. i read into things. i write poems about eye contact

beige apartments with no soul. give me bookshelves and incense and loud art

sneaky links and unclear intentions. i want devotion. and also clarity

treating books as decor. read them. dog-ear them. argue with them in the margins

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse Beuscher, her former psychiatrist (dated Friday, 20 July 1962)

[aazizam]

no one will come to save you but some will offer you their hand to hold when life gets tough and those are the ppl that matter

[wedarkacademia]

Yeah now we've entered the back pain stage

[selfship-quotes]

I love soulmates but also this-

[shisasan]

July 22, 1930 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931 [volume 4]

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: July 19, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. END ID]

[geryone]

Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente

[ashstfu]

x / martha gellhorn

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland (1858)

[catchymemes]

[ruhlare]

me and the tumblrinas

[deviika]

Louise Glück // Kaui Hart Hemmings

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems; "That You Love Me In Green,"

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

[fateofgrace]

- Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Marie-Helene Bertino