I'm Very Pop Culture Savvy Now.

[stardusteyes]

[alioshakaramazov]

may i offer you some Hamlet booty shorts in these trying times

[burning-cathedrals-deactivated2]

You know what I love? Calling it "Christian Mythology." Referring to their god as "The Christian God." Refusing to conform to the idea that their religion is any more valid than anyone else's.

Oh, it makes them spicy. Gets them all twitchy. They wanna fistfight me in a Denny's parking lot, but they know they can't 'cause I'm right.

[rabnerd28]

[thecalminside]

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

Eckhart Tolle

[just-shower-thoughts]

Somewhere out there is a kid whose birthday wish was “I wish spring break could go on forever”.

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Perez Cowan written c. October 1869

[unconditionedconsciousness]

“There is no certainty; there is only adventure.”

— Roberto Assagioli (via hocuspicus)

[jazminesullivan]

BILLIE HOLIDAY at The Apollo

[humortexts]

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“Your fragile voice, stolen by time, brings me close to you once more.”

— Vadim Andreyev, tr. by Belinda Bridle, from 20th Century Russian Poetry; “A Deep Scar Engraved,”

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Boris Pasternak, tr. by Edwin Morgan, from Twenteith Century Russian Poetry; “Night,”

[aqua-regia009]

By Alméry Lobel-Riche Illustrations for Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (c.1923)

[mournfulroses]

How inevitably one thing flowers out of another

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I felt the old pain rise. But I had no strength to hold it in. I shut my mouth with both hands for fear I would howl, for my home, my native town, a great tree blossoming in moonlight. Sometimes I feel things not physically there, but feel them anyway and they hint at a truth, even if it’s hard to unpack till years later.”

Meena Alexander, from “Fault Lines,” originally published c. 1993 (x)

[moonpinkie]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I can’t believe libraries are just there. Like, you can just go in and take stuff

[betterlibraryschoolclasses]

The rumors are true.