sounds of the sleepless

lunatic, lover, poet

[munzevisuriide]

"işte geldim. işte gittim. bir güz çiçeği gibi bittim."

[oliverfranju]

[playwolves]

im doing a photoseries its called If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now

[astriloquum]

Joseph Brodsky, translated by Howard Moss, from a poem titled "I Sit By The Window,"

[lunamonchtuna]

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Love of the Last Tycoon (via lunamonchtuna)

[typewriter-worries]

[ Text ID: His dark eyes took me in, and I wondered what they would look like if he fell in love. ]

[strykerlancer-deactivated202405]

Something in me wants more. I can't rest.

— Sylvia Plath, from “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.”

[existential-celestial]

“Spring has come again. The earth is like a child who knows poems by heart;”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, “XXI,”  in Sonnets to Orpheus  (Part One)

[moonlitfairytale]

Natalie Wee, Least of all

[mournfulroses]

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

[mournfulroses]

Frida Kahlo, from a letter written in 1934, featured in "The Letters of Frida Kahlo,"

[feral-ballad]

Ama Codjoe, from Bluest Nude: Poems; “Bluest Nude”

[Text ID: “I crave. I want to be seen clearly or not at all.”]

[astriloquum]

[havingapoemwithyou]

reading farrokhzad in a pandemic by Kaveh Akbar

[existential-celestial]

Into the crashing sound, into wickedness, she cried, No one, no, nor no one million ones dare deny me God, I go forth along, and stand as ten thousand. The Divine upon my right impels me to pull forever at the latch on Freedom’s gate. The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Maya Angelou, from “Our Grandmothers,” in The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou

[amourduloup-deactivated20210512]

— Inscriptions Cain Read in Abel’s Eyes, Silvina Ocampo, tr. Jason Weiss

[aakirr-a]

[sakurabreeze]

“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”

— Seamus Heaney

[firstfullmoon]

“Hope is optimism with a broken heart.”

— Nick Cave, in Faith, Hope and Carnage