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TOMMIE BROWN 🌿LA roots, NYC branches🌿 My atoms have been replaced by the alphabet, my blood with honey. WordsAreLikeHoney.Com

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Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, dated 23 December 1881

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Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Leonard Woolf, featured in The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

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Natalie Díaz, from “Postcolonial Love Poem”, Postcolonial Love Poem

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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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the five stages of thursday

[likepaperandink]

Once, a guy who used to ask me to write him poetry and did recreational coke told me he didn’t think I was funny in front of a group of his friends. He spent the rest of the night fastened to my hip while nursing a beer and I wondered why men become more attracted once they humiliate you. We stopped being friends years ago but now and again he still sends me text messages asking how I am. And every time I answer I wonder why I still try to make him laugh.

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Sylvia Plath, from Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices [ID in alt text]

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“I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of ones eyes and possible in the gristle of the ear lobe.”

Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

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me completely by myself in my room: alright everybody just calm down

[sugaryewscythe]

i'm a magickal serpent fairy that lives in hidden forest pools and gives prophecies to all the other creatures while sipping mushroom tea and nobody can tell me otherwise

[shisasan]

𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟷, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[nightlyquotes]

“And if there’s something that I’ve learned this year, it’s this: When you truly love something, you choose it over anything else. No matter what the world will say to make you look the other way you choose it and you choose it ferociously. And then you see where life will take you from there.”

— Juansen Dizon, The Year of Love

[nightlyquotes]

“Some people hate the thought of being alone. I’m not like that. I love my solitude. I’m kind to myself. My feelings don’t get hurt. My energy’s not leeched. And it’s very peaceful.”

— Unknown

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T. S. Eliot — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

[ashstfu]

me after discovering something like a minute ago: im obsessed with this

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[quotemadness]

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien