hothouse flower

“... all literature in some degree, exists to reveal a more powerful and passionate, a more divine world than ours.”  

[dogs99999]

I literally love being at home! In my own space! Comfortable! Not surrounded by people!

[flowerytale]

Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Andonis Anemoyannis, 1902

[aaaangel444]

[soracities]

Frank Bidart, “To the Dead”, Half-Light: Collected Poems, 1965-2016

[Text ID: “The love I’ve known is the love of two people staring

not at each other, but in the same direction.”]

[feral-ballad]

Susan Abulhawa, from Against the Loveless World: A Novel

[Text ID: “I knew that, despite everything, I was loved. I was loved hard. At once and forever against the loveless world.”]

[flowerytale]

Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods

[flowerytale]

Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods

[flowerytale]

Marina Tsvetaeva, from "No one has taken anything away", Selected Poems

[flowerytale]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles

[mlhraiders]

sorry i didn’t text you back i was having floor time

[flowerytale]

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Lytton Strachey (September 1925)

[flowerytale]

Franz Kafka, from “Diaries, 1910-1923”

[flowerytale]

Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay

[inksplit]

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

To the Bone, Dorothy Allison 

[ID: That summer I did not go crazy / but I wore / very close / very close / to the bone.]

[tendermimi]

august you are so gentle to me

[flowerytale]

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947