light love

stay a while.

[lunamonchtuna]

— Samuel Beckett, an excerpt from "Cascando" (via lunamonchtuna)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Cecelia Ahern, from If You Could See Me Now (via lunamonchtuna)

[ph0s-eros]

a devouring sadness

[metamorphesque]

— Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

[text ID: Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is / to watch the year repeat its days. / It is as if I could dip my hand down / into time and scoop up / blue and green lozenges of April heat / a year ago in another country.]

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[ph0s-eros]

and i know that you are eating dinner now

and that if i was there, you would have asked me to stay

and hold your hand just a little while longer

[mournfulroses]

Andrei Tarkovsky, from a diary entry featured in Time Within Time; Selected Diaries

[snailune]

oooohhhh ok. the more you deny yourself the more you lose yourself

[apoemaday]

Untitled

by Franz Wright

Will I always be eleven, lonely in this house, reading books that are too hard for me, in the long fatherless hours. The terrible hours of the window, the rain-light on the page, awaiting the letter, the phone call, still your strange elderly child

[lunamonchtuna]

— Sylvia Plath, quoting an acquaintance in ‘The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath’

[pining-earth-goddess]

Being bound to a human form is the worst

[grundoonmgnx]

ph. Greg Conners, Marina Towers, Chicago (aka the Corn Cob buildings)

[mournfulroses]

Nikita Gill, from Your Heart is the Sea: Poems; "The Anguish," originally published in 2018

[lionfloss]

Fiordland National Park, New Zealand

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[mournfulroses]

Chelsea Wolfe, from Pain Is Beauty; “We Hit A Wall,” released in September 2013

[women-loving-art]

Mary Oliver, from The Chance To Love Everything