audacious in the name of being honest

'And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.' " sydney australia 28

[wovi]

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susan sontag

[wovi]

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osho

[wovi]

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ellen bass

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib on Aracelis Girmay’s “You Are Who I Love”

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

[weltenwellen]

Ocean Vuong, “A Letter to my Mother that She Will Never Read” The New Yorker, May 2017 

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Conjunction: Mars, Venus and Moon

by Stefan Grießinger

[remanence-of-love]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Jay Vespertine

Text ID: “Maybe in a parallel universe i was not betrayed so poetically.”

[starlightacademia]

— unknown

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Sylvia Plath

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Mary Kate Teske

[weltenwellen]

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

[stay-close]

“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say ‘But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You

[stay-close]

“I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.”

— Unknown

[streetsamurai]

[feral-ballad]

Jeanette Winterson, from The PowerBook