republicofdespair

[bakwaaas]

reading a lot as a child saved my life and shaped who I am as a person. I literally would not be where I am today without it. so even though I don’t read that much as an adult now, it will always be an important part of who I am

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, from "Dogfish" in New and Selected Poems

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “There you were, and it was like spring”, Red Bird

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)

[lunamonchtuna]

— Mary Oliver, from The Gardener (via lunamonchtuna)

[ghiblin]

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE 魔女の宅急便 1989, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

[luthienne]

Mahmoud Darwish, from Journal of an Ordinary Grief (tr. from the Arabic by Ibrahim Muhawi)

[meinzsara]

Orfayo

[seaoflove]

mary oliver, from the deer

[luthienne]

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Only press on: no feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “The Book of Hours”

[tendermimi]

— Mary Oliver, North Country

[weltenwellen]

“I don’t know what to do with my heart.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Lavinia Dickinson written c. March 1862 

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, “A Voice from I Don’t Know Where”, Felicity

[weltenwellen]

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

[eternal-gardens]

Then God will recompensate you with what is befitting to your heart.