signed, the sun ☼

a collection of musings, inspiration and things that give me joy

[petaltexturedskies]

Dorothy Allison, from “To The Bone”

[mournfulroses]

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Turn: The Journal of an Artist originally published in 1982

[mournfulroses]

Julia de Burgos, from Song of the Simple Truth: Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Return To Me,"

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[wordrummager]

we are whatever’s left after stars fade part of us is a river that never sleeps

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[mournfulroses]

Ted Hughes, from a poem titled "Song," featured in Love Is Like The Lion's Tooth: An Anthology of Love Poems

[weltenwellen]

Taking Care  Callista Buchen

[petaltexturedskies]

The reason why I hate the idea of growing up, I guess, is subconsciously because I want to remain a child and be sheltered from accepting the responsibility of things. I also shy away from making decisions and thinking about what I’m good for – which I am convinced, isn’t much.

Sylvia Plath, in a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman wr. c. January 1951, from The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol. I: 1940-1956

[tinylilemrys]

The writer's barely disguised longing for a soft life shared with someone who loves them

[petaltexturedskies]

Alfonsina Storni, from "The Siren" in Mask & Clover: Poems

[weltenwellen]

Tomatoes Joy Sullivan

[pollen]

Mary Oliver, from "Starlings in Winter"

[academiaa-a]

When Margaret Atwood said, "there is something in your throat that wants to get out and you won't let it." and then Franz Kafka wrote, "And what I really intended to say in the end remains unsaid."

[kjscottwrites]

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[vexheart]

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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