All my sleepless nights, I put into a quiet word

[manderley]

𝗍𝖾𝖺 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗌𝗒𝗆𝗉𝖺𝗍𝗁𝗒 (𝟣𝟫𝟧𝟨)

[letswakeupworld]

Two Palestinian girls read the Quran during summer vacation at a mosque in Gaza City. (Photo Credit: Mohammed Salem)

[saltoncity]

can we get anne carson on hot ones

[cornedbeefhashtags]

Diane, clear my schedule. I’m attempting a recipe that says “prep time: 15 minutes.”

[cagedsanity]

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

David Lynch (1946-2025)

[cleaningouttherooms]

*widely praised poetic quote in a foreword by a usamerican translator voice* see this language.... it's not like other languages. sometimes it has metaphors. or abstract thinking. sometimes a word has several meanings. sometimes a lot of meaning can be condensed into two words. sometimes those words even have etymologies. sometimes if you translate idioms or break down the components of words you can get something pretty cool in english. and naturally this gives us essential insight into the timeless national character of its people

[aaronstveit]

ROBERT REDFORD & KATHARINE ROSS Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

[foolhearteyes]

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

[pmamtraveller]

"The Motherland Calls" located in Volgograd, Russia.

[metamorphesque]

Galina Belyaeva in The Shooting Party (My Sweet and Tender Beast, 1978)

[shisasan]

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (1934)

[petaltexturedskies]

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

Susan Sontag, from At the Same Time

[sovietpostcards]

Evening in tselina [virgin lands]. The Red October sovkhoz in Kazakstan (1963).

[chthonic-cassandra]

Night is the interior world - in this case not spatial but temporal - of Romeo and Juliet, a middle world of transformation and dream sharply contrasted to the harsh daylight world of law, civil war, and banishment. Night will be the setting for all the play's crucial private moments, moments of tragedy and love: the masque at Capulet's feast; the balcony scene in the orchard; the aubade scene, after the lovers have spent the night together; and the final night, the final darkness of Romeo's visit to Juliet's tomb, his fight with the County Paris, and his death. This is all the more striking when we recall that plays written for the public theater, like Romeo and Juliet [...] were performed in full daylight, in the middle of the afternoon. The sense of foreboding night and pervasive blackness is conjured up entirely by and through language, with the assistance of a few well-placed props and costumes: a lantern, a candle, a nightdress. Night, that is to say, is a state of theater and a state of mind.

Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare After All

[mournfulroses]

Feng Zhi, from a poem titled "Snake," featured in A century of modern Chinese poetry : an anthology

[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."

[littlehorrorshop]

Colleen Moore in Ella Cinders (1926)