My life as a curious autodidact

Autodidact, compulsive flâneur, occasional dilettante. Aspiring luftmensch. Das ist eine brotlose Kunst.

[happydonutcheesecake-deactivate]

The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and says - "here is your home country."

-Nizar Qabbani

[lifeinpoetry]

The past is a country of held breaths misread as silence, or the way things had to be. But I am trying to see

what the land means instead of what the mind means in the relaying. Somewhere inside me is the understanding

that water isn’t actually blue. What it aspires to, then, may be what I mean.

— Maya C. Popa, from "There Must Be a Meaning," Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“I have the gift of desiring, of inventing more and more desires, of never knowing satiation and dullness. And I am cursed with the lack of genius for renunciation.”

— Anais Nin

[et--cetera]

[remanence-of-love]

[journalofanobody]

“Ignore labyrinths that others may construct around you and remember that the shortest distance between two points is your own path.”

— Michael Boiano

[resqectable]

“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

[perfectfeelings]

“Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing. A memory to someone. A home to a life.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

[surqrised]

“If someone does not want me, it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

[yaya-tchoum]

I'm restless and harsh and desparing. Although I do have love inside me.I just don't know how to use love. Sometimes it tears at my flesh, like barbs.

~•Clarice Lispector•~

#Clarice Lispector #photo Mathieu Vladimir Alliard

[thecalminside]

For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

[theliteraryjournals]

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

[tylerknott]

Typewriter Series #2116 by Tyler Knott Gregson

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.

Jewel Kilcher, Chasing Down the Dawn (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[shxrika]

Please, Respect my silence, Silence is my best weapon Did you feel my words When I fell silent? Did you feel the beauty of what I said When I said nothing?

[tylerknott]

Typewriter Series #1993 by Tyler Knott Gregson

[weltenwellen]

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (via weltenwellen)