Slow down, you crazy child

[everychingoes]

mary oliver, from october

rm, everythingoes (trans. doolsetbangtan)

fyodor dostoyevsky, from the brothers karamazov

yumi sakugawa (source)

ocean vuong, from on earth we're briefly gorgeous

sylvia plath, from the bell jar

bernadette mayer, from the way to keep going in antarctica

ada limón, from dead stars

rainer maria rilke, from letters to a young poet

mary oliver, from moments

[pmamtraveller]

Roman carnelian intaglio showing two grasshoppers fighting as gladiators, c.1st century BC.

[mahoganyamore]

don’t wait up

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf

[loveridden1999]

"it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."

[feral-ballad]

Shon Faye, from Love in Exile

[michaelmoonsbookshop]

Beautiful detailed wood engraving 1727

[mirrorsinner]

[paper-wounds]

[coffeeandthoughtspoetry]

― Anaïs Nin, The early diary of Anaïs Nin

[st-pam]

Untitled ink drawings 2018

[pmamtraveller]

Mammal in a Sunday Dress, by Georgina M. Cox, 2026

[liebesfraulein]

Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Germany

[restless-dreqm]

Sex , lies, and videotape (1989)

[pmamtraveller]

Kiss of Victory, Sir Alfred Gilbert

[pmamtraveller]

Hand studies, by Ognjen Sporin

[farmgf]

Linda Pastan, The Months