poetry lover

josefina // twenty-something // capricorn // aesthetics and poetry

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[aurorarlynch]

BOOKS READ IN 2017: The Secret History by Donna Tartt 

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

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[anditslove]

“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing.”

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

[adrasteiax]

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)”

— Sylvia Plath, from Mad Girl’s Love Song

[ppurmoi]

I tried to design some typographic work...how do you like it?

[weltenwellen]

Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

[a-11ure]

Love love

[weltenwellen]

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

[laurapetrie]

“I am going to make you love me. Sweetheart, what I mean is: I want to sit on the edge of your bed while you have your breakfast - I want to laugh with you, be incredibly silly, be incredibly happy, be like children, and I want to kiss you more than anything in the world.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay in a letter to George Dillon, c. 1929 (via pinkballerinas)

[weltenwellen]

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

[redlipstickresurrected]

Christophe Jacrot (French, b. 1960, Paris, France) - En Dessous de Zéro (Below Zero) series, Norilsk, Siberia, Russia, Photography

[firstfullmoon]

You, in the upstairs room, are in your usual position, leaning on your

right shoulder which aches all day. You are breathing patiently; it is a

beautiful sound. It is your life, which is so close to my own that I would not know

where to drop the knife of separation. And what does this have to do with love, except

everything?

— Mary Oliver, from “Oxygen”

[aquaticwonder]

Silvia Gil-Roldán

[themindmovement]

“I think when you spend enough time when it’s quiet around you and you don’t open your mouth for three or four days, there’s parts of your brain that can kind of rest. I think when we’re out in the world and we have to talk to people, we edit ourselves. You know, we have to like, act a little bit. As honest as we may be as humans, when we’re out here, we’re all kind of wearing mirrors on our faces. You know, constantly reacting to how to react to the people around you. And I think when you’re alone for a long enough time, you can feel a lot more peace.”

— Justin Vernon

[anniespositivity]

You do not have to look beautiful while walking down the streets. You do not have to look beautiful while eating. You do not have to look beautiful while talking. You do not have to look beautiful while laughing. While doing sports. While having sex. While singing. While dancing. You were not born to look beautiful, my love. You are here to enjoy, to feel, to live. There is no point in worrying what you look like when you are doing things you actually enjoy because that joy will be taken away by the fear of not looking good enough. Again, it is not your purpose to look beautiful, darling. Your purpose is to fall in love with life, to laugh until your belly hurts, to express your feelings, to sing from the top of your lungs, to dance as silly as you want to - without worrying about your appearance. For all that matters is that your soul is beautiful and happy.

[mydarkenedeyes]

jintoniic

[giftsandsins]

love is attentive | waves m.p.