feedyourhead

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “Portrait of Dora”

Text ID: It’s in your silences that I’d like to touch you.

[thereignclub-trc]

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[becherdireinen]

I have the purest heart so it’s never my loss respectfully.

[lunchboxpoems]

[feral-ballad]

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

[Text ID: “I was stalking love, trapping love, losing love, longing for love…”]

[weltenwellen]

Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

[firstfullmoon]

Ada Limón, from “The Burying Beetle,” in The Carrying [ID in alt text]

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[theoptia]

Patrick Modiano, from In the Café of Lost Youth

Text ID: We live at the mercy of certain silences.

[megairea]

“and you were gazing at me, more than gazing — my gaze was dreaming you, and yours was dreaming me.”

— Pedro Salinas, from “Tell me”; To Live In Pronouns: Selected Love Poems (tr. by Edith Helman & Norma Farber)

[feral-ballad]

Nayyirah Waheed, from Nejma

[Text ID: “here is my heart to place under yours.”]

[feral-ballad]

Nayyirah Waheed, from Nejma

[Text ID: “you are happening now. / right now. / right at this moment / and / your happening / is beautiful. / you don’t even know how breathtaking you are. / as you are.’ says the universe through tears.”]

[sadittyprincess-deactivated2025]

[distantvoices]

Peng Chang by Kuo Huan Kao for Vogue Taiwan August 2022

[atoubaa]

From the series Namm Naa La (Senegal, 2021) - Charlotte Yonga

[lustingupon]

@adele_helmers