high as hope

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

let love in. believe compliments. be vulnerable and soft-hearted. tell people you love that you love them. see beauty in everyday things. live life like you’re in a movie. don’t be afraid to begin again.

[lingrix]

ive never said 1 coherent thing in my life

[lifeinpoetry]

“Now, I demand a love that is stupid and beautiful, like a pilot turning off her engines mid-flight to listen for rain on wings.”

— Paige Lewis, from “Pavlov was the Son of a Priest” published in Ploughshares

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” - William Shakespeare, King Lear

[rachaelanthoney]

Venice, 2016

[heavensghost]

[relatablepoetryandquotes]

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?” - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[heavensghost]

[alwaysnewdepths]

Being weird together in museums is a love language

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

being a genzennial is like. you remember the recession but you still have to occasionally google things like “who is bernie madoff” because you were busy watching drake & josh when all that went down

[lifeinpoetry]

My grief in a strange pond              a funeral birth,                           a silver fish.

— Zaina Alsous, from “On having begun,” A Theory of Birds: Poems

[heavensghost]

Anne Carson

[heavensghost]

[plantwitch]

she’s distant! she’s incoherent! she’s sensitive! she uses escapism as a coping mechanism! she’s me!!!

[loveserum-deactivated20191021]

i dont really wanna feel hard to love anymore

[watchoutforintellect]

Emily Dickinson, from “The name – of it – is Autumn” (poem 656) featured in The Complete Poems

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Linda Hogan, from Dark, Sweet: New & Selected Poems; “Turning,”