[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[weltenwellen]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

[pre-raphaelisme]

Study of Dante holding the hand of Love (for the painting ‘Dante’s Dream at the Time of the Death of Beatrice’) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1855-1856.

[sentimentalbeing2001]

To be caressed by a love that does not demand much of you but meets you where you are

[soundcarvings]

whatever you may be resisting right now, it’s time to give in and allow the water flow to you.

[geryone]

Night Poem, Leila Chatti

[soracities]

Charles Wright, from "A Journal of One Significant Landscape", The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 [ID'd]

[soracities]

“One day I will bare my soul completely and we will never run out of things to say because the soul is infinite.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “An Apprenticeship, or, The Book of Delights,” (via atreides)

[arthoesunshine]

i like to pretend i already died and asked god to send me back to earth so i can swim in lakes again and see mountains and get my heart broken and love my friends and cry so hard in the bathroom and go grocery shopping 1,000 more times. and that i promised i would never forget the miracle of being here

[04k96]

[freshmoviequotes]

Wake Up Dead Man (2025)

[julaibib]

Tawakkul teaches you maturity: you do your part, but you don’t panic about the result. You walk with Allah, and that walk gives you a peace the world can’t imitate.

[tamsoj]

E. E. Cummings, Poetry (February 1961)

[bluechanas]

ai this ai that how about we invent a printer that works first

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Back in my room I can’t hear the river passing like time, or the moon emerging from the shadow of earth, but I can see the water that never repeats itself. It’s very difficult to look at the World and into your heart at the same time.”

— Jim Harrison, from “The Davenport Lunar Eclipse,” Complete Poems, ed. Joseph Bednarik (Copper Canyon Press, 2021)

[ruhaniya]

when a bond is spiritual, you don‘t have to hold on, it holds on to you

[sec0ndwind]

I’m so hungry I could eat the gap between what I said and what I meant