sweet tongue

Kate's side blog of only text

[thoughtkick]

“I have a weakness for clever minds.”

— Unknown

[metamorphesque]

  ― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

[text ID: To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.]

[kaliforeignia]

My angels are really always looking out for me! I see the signs everywhereeee

[weltenwellen]

Warsan Shire, from “Hooyo Isn't Home”, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem

[weltenwellen]

Natalie Díaz, from "American Arithmetic", Postcolonial Love Poem

[soracities]

Walt Whitman, ‘Song of Myself’, Leaves of Grass

[Text ID: “Do I contradict myself? Very well then….I contradict myself; I am large….I contain multitudes.”]

[andrumedus]

Morgan Parker, Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night; “Greetings from Struggle City”

[Text ID: For a taste of your neck I would / burn my tongue]

[aidashakur]

Letting go….. its so freeing. Time to clear my head & get my mind right.

[geryone]

Alive at the End of the World, Saeed Jones

[season-of-maha-moved-blog]

“Unseen, precious, secret things,”

— Georg Trakl, from Poems: Bilingual Edition; “Mary Magdalene: A Dialogue,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[leopardheart-deactivated2023022]

i’ve had ‘the beauty of the world is the mouth of a labyrinth’ stuck in my head and had forgotten the full quote went this hard. can barely cope with the experience of comprehending it

[forestlore]

“Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis, tr. by Carl Wildman, from “Zorba the Greek,” wr. c. 1946 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[peachysuggest]

you are important and special and loved even when your mind tells you you’re not

[goddessglo]

never apologizing for my high standards. i deserve to have more.

[kakfa]

the contents page of Pictures & Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings by James Elkins