yana

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[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from a past life

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The House by the Sea

[weltenwellen]

Louise Glück, from ""Averno", Averno

[weltenwellen]

Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[seaymph]

“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena  (via kafkaesque-world)

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[ashstfu]

read literature. be present. make love. make tea. write a poem. cry. watch a sappy movie that makes you want to throw things at it. paint your nails. cook something. call your best friend. learn an instrument. wonder. take a bath. go for a walk. lie down on the grass. listen to the entirety of ur favorite album from 2016. take pics of sunsets. ponder. shamelessly dance in your room. curl up on your bed. make endless wishes to the stars twinkling in the midnight sky. think about nothing. think about everything. think about things so hard that you barely remember what happened moments ago and why you’re feeling the way you do

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

[weltenwellen]

Sarah Fathima Mohammed, from "nocturnes in the rain"

[weltenwellen]

Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

[fairydropart]

Enoki for Funguary

[fusdoq]

“I have never been in despair about the world. I am enraged by it. I can't afford despair. You can't tell the children there's no hope.” - Baldwin

[weltenwellen]

Jericho Brown, from Another Elegy (”This is what our dying looks like”)", The New Testament

[violentwavesofemotion]

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”

— E.M. Cioran, from The Trouble With Being Born (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

Sometimes, I cry so hard I can feel it in my ribs. / I feel like the real me is backed into a corner inside me

— Ama Asantewa Diaka, from "Saturday Evening WhatsApp Message," Woman, Eat Me Whole

[heavenhillgirl]

do you really think that guy who takes 12 hours to reply is your soulmate