[soracities]

from Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women’s Poetry

[Text ID: “Come and be a flower on my chest So that I can refresh you every morning with a burst of laughter.”]

[ryebreadgf]

THE GARDEN

[heavenlyyshecomes]

‘To be loved is something of which I have not mastered the art…’

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to her friend Bakhrakh

[comfortingnightvale]

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”

— Welcome to Night Vale, “All Hail”

[tristealven]

“There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via luthienne)

[devil--in--suit-deactivated2020]

“You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.”

— Sarah Kay, “The Type”.

[pinkfemme-deactivated20210608]

stone butch blues.

[aseaofquotes]

Heather Anastasiu, Glitch

Submitted by randomkiwibirds.

[antigonies]

I told someone I was falling in love with them and they answered “I don’t feel like I’m falling. I think I’m rising in love with you. I’m floating. You make me better.” and honestly, what A Concept

[theotreptos]

Melissa Broder

[goodreadss]

“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”

—

[toskka-deactivated20210124]

Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenká, tr. Tania and James Stern, from ‘Letters to Milena’

[beautifulviolent-deactivated202]

“Last night I couldn’t sleep and couldn’t sleep just because I wanted so badly to spill over to someone. I feel that I’m cut off from all humankind. I feel like putting my head on your shoulder and weeping from sheer homesickness.”

— Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath c. June 1951 featured in Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[poemswords]

“The words you speak become the house you live in.”

— Hafiz (via philosophyquotes)

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Alive Together; ‘In the Thriving Season’ by Lisel Mueller

[ID: love grows by what it remembers of love.]

[gnossienne]

Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays

[jazbaaati]

Adrienne Rich, Fracture, (Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010).