Affectueuse

[metamorphesque]

— Mary Oliver, The Pond

[metamorphesque]

Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?", Eve Merriam

[heavensghost]

I spent so many years yearning for romantic love just to understand that platonic love is actually the most important thing in the whole wide world

[angelicdewdrop]

[juliettefakename]

"Tout chez toi me transporte."

Lui à moi

[praying]

[fleurdusoir-deactivated20241125]

“Et dans l’âme du marin règne, comme chez les croyants, l’idée d’un Dieu irascible et formidable, la crainte mystérieuse, religieuse, infinie du vent, et le respect de sa puissance.”

— Guy de Maupassant, Sur l’eau

[metamorphesque]

i'm all the people i've ever loved

loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake

[bnmxfld]

“Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.”

— Joan Bauer / Almost Home

[thecwst]

[bnmxfld]

“I like people who talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus / The Fall

[bnmxfld]

“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”

— Viv Albertine

[loved-ones]

Never forget how they gave you distance when you needed love

[missinyouiskillingme]

remember that

[orwell]

A couple stops to rest and take in the view, while hiking through the Swiss Alps. Switzerland,1984.

[orwell]

Red Poppies, Kiyoshi Saito, 1948

[ai-am-living-deactivated2023061]

[om3qa]