the head is too wise, the heart is all fire

19 // she/her

[saabuu]

"Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."

-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

[kitaabonkaghar]

Can a single day bear the burden of so many random firsts?

- Sachin Kundalkar, 'Cobalt Blue'

[nasa]

🏊‍♂️ Down for a dip in the Cosmic Reef?

Nicknamed the Cosmic Reef because it resembles an undersea world, this is a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Released in April 2020 to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 30th anniversary, the reef showcases the beauty and mystery of space in this complex image of starbirth. Throughout its decades of discoveries, Hubble has yielded over 1.5 million observations, providing data that astronomers around the world have used to write more than 18,000 peer-reviewed scientific publications, making it the most prolific space observatory in history.

Learn more about Hubble’s celebration of Nebula November and see new nebula images, here.

You can also keep up with Hubble on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Flickr!

Image credits: NASA, ESA, and STScI

[evolvingessence]

[feral-ballad]

Gabrielle Bates, So We Must Meet Apart; “August 19, 2018”

[devilsskettle]

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

[typodescript]

[text ID: "Do you always go where you're not wanted?"

Eleanor smiled placidly. "I've never been wanted anywhere," she said.]

[adrasteiax]

“Behind me the red and orange leaves whisper. I am afraid of the woods in daylight, the colors demanding I feel.”

— Gregory Orr, from October in “New And Selected Poems”

[vvnnie]

Thankful for nights like these // Instagram / Website

[feral-ballad]

Anna Akhmatova, tr. by Lenore Mayhew and William Mcnaughton, from Poem Without A Hero and Selected Poems; “In a dream”

[frostklamm]

the closer the stranger

[damonalbarngirl]

oh.....

[metamorphesque]

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

[beneaththemoon4]

That intimate moment between you and the book you have just read the last words of, where you sit there taking in the enormity of what you have just finished.

[feral-ballad]

Suzanne Alaywan, from Half-moon Street

[linkinmoon]

Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

[quotemadness]

“There’s a universe inside your head; constellations of the things you left unsaid.”

— Laren Aquilina

[saabuu]

Yes, please don't choose to text your ex partner or friend or anything that you think will be toxic for you. Please be good to yourself, oki? Don't be meee

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine