magician

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[didanagy]

JESSIE BUCKLEY as AGNES HATHAWAY and PAUL MESCAL as WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

HAMNET (2025) dir. chloé zhao

[remanence-of-love]

[mysunisawoman]

yes yes yes

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”

[cloudswamp]

more and more, margaret atwood

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“At your door I want you to fumble for your keys, postponing our good-bye, or–better–not find them at all so the two of us would have to spend the night in the field at the end of your street like ancient travelers plotting our next day’s journey by the stars.”

— Mark Brazaitis, from “I Know I Could Love You,” The Other Language: Poems (ABZ Poetry Press, 2009)

[elkrisen-deactivated20260120]

favorite part of the human experience is when you have a wonderful night out with people you know you will never be with again in the same way and you're so full of love because it's all so temporary and fleeting

[empyreanangel]

[soracities]

when e.e. cummings said “i’ll live my life if it kills me”

[softspringsolace]

when andrea gibson said “i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.” & when ellen bass said “to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it”

[typewriter-worries]

when james baldwin said, “this is why one must say yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found-and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is;”

[bakwaaas]

there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

[highoffculture]

[heateron]

hearts of darkness (1991) dir. eleanor coppola, george hickenlooper, fax bahr

[soracities]

Dunya Mikhail, from Diary of a wave outside the sea (trans. Elizabeth Winslow and Dunya Mikhail) [ID'd]

[lastofthemoors]

What makes you happy?

Giving

[makingimages]

[petitjeanofficial]

“But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine.”

— Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 232

[litandlifequotes]

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

[escuerzoresucitado]

[magus-s]

/ / / surely this 880 page book will fix me / / / / / /The count of Monte Cristo/ / /

[the-watcher-in-the-sky]

Cursed bloody