[petaltexturedskies]

Leila Chatti, from “The Moment When a Feeling Enters” in Wildness Before Something Sublime

[rozzed]

why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? it won't hurt him....

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, “The Kingfisher.” Owls and Other Fantasies

[wovi]

*

marie howe, what the silence says

[enkidusbi]

everybody shut up and look at my favourite anatolian hieroglyph

it's the L9/L444 sign and it means embraced or beloved

[aszmxm]

امتلك دائمًا قلبًا طيبًا، فكل الأشياء الجيدة تعود إليك مضاعفة.

[thenextdoormatilda]

Gaza, Palestine.

[fromhersoul]

Peace be upon those who are smiling despite the sorrow of the heart.

[julaibib]

[mathhombre]

Langston Hughes, The First Book of Rhythm, Illustration by Robin King, Franklin Watts, New York, NY, 1954, pp. 6-7

Had to collect more of these in one place. First seen at @garadinervi. 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5974919-the-first-book-of-rhythms

[tenderblues]

John Cage to Merce Cunningham, June 29 1943

[luthienne]

We open each meeting by asking a simple question: What is keeping you alive today? This allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us to the Next Thing. Yes, I did not want to get out of bed this morning, but there was one single long shard of sunlight that stumbled in through a tear in my curtains, and the warmth of it hitting my arm got me to that first hour of living. There was my dog, who, on the mornings I do not want to get out of bed, will rest silently at my feet and wait for me to slowly emerge from under the covers, and seeing her reminds me that I do, in fact, have only one lifetime in which I can love this animal. As far as I know, we will love each other only here, for a while, and that is worth seeing what I can make out of a few hours, even when I’m wrecked with despair.

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

[1976desire]

joan baez for rolling stone, 2025. photos by ulysses ortega

[scurator]

oh by the way, rb-ing this again to say please read the article -- Joan has always been and remains to this day such an absolute ledge.

some highlights:

(on A Complete Unknown:)

[weltenwellen]

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

[luthienne]

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

[saintsebastiensbf]

Mary Oliver

[lazycloud]

Rudyard Kipling, If-