[echo-temporis]

Eternity The beast’s gaze, an empty glare, It has forever. It doesn't care.

[niimph]

“I daydream, calm, quiet.”

— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “One Day Less”

[inkpressedpetals]

[lunamonchtuna]

— David Foster Wallace, from The Pale King (via lunamonchtuna)

[mournfulroses]

Luo Zhicheng, from a poem titled "A Candle Fell Asleep in its Own Flame," featured in Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology

[weltenwellen]

May Sarton, The House by the Sea

[mournfulroses]

Anne Truitt, from a diary entry featured in Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

[mournfulroses]

Clementina Suárez, from a poem titled "Another Poem to my Mother," featured in These Are Not Sweet Girls; Latin American Women Poets

[feral-ballad]

Audre Lorde, from The Black Unicorn: Poems; “From the house of Yemanjá”

[Text ID: “I am / the sun and moon and forever hungry”]

[thebluewaitingroom]

i would have given you everything

if you had just given me an inch.

july 8th, 4:44 pm.

[poetic-questions]

from "Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin (1939-1947)"

[soracities]

And I—and I go out without hope, without purpose, and return home the same as when I went.

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (trans. Bayard Quincy Morgan)

[resqectable]

“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

[mournfulroses]

Savannah Brown, from a poem titled "Unmute me unmute me unmute me!," featured in Closer Baby Closer: Poems

[thoughtkick]

“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?”

— Jojo Moyes, After You

[internationalpictures]

[mournfulroses]

Emily Skaja, from a poem titled "No, I Do Not Want to Talk with You on Linkendin," featured in Brute: Poems