[allthesedarlingsandnowme]

the sciences and humanities are kissing with tongue. forever.

[r-is-for-raven]

“I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a feeling. There is goodness in blue skies and flowers, but another force - a wild pain and decay - also accompanies everything.”

— David Lynch

[weltenwellen]

Enough Music Dorianne Laux

[butterflypeaflowertea]

by liang xiaoman (translated by benjamin orion landauer)

[geryone]

Fauna, Richard Siken

[primulaceas]

Tennessee Williams, “We Have Not Long to Love.”

[felicitypdf]

[kafk-a]

Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

[lunchboxpoems]

LUCILLE CLIFTON

[viperslang]

“O praise the loyalty of the body that labors to rebuild its palatial realm. Bless butter. Bless brie. Sanctify schmaltz. And cream and cashews. Stoke the furnace of the stomach and load the vessels.”

— Ellen Bass, Ode to Fat

[kafk-a]

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/

[heavensghost]

‘Love is an organic thing. It rots and softens.’

Words by Clementine Von Radics

[undinesea]

All praise to the inexhaustible labyrinth of cause and effect which, before unveiling to me the mirror where I shall see no one or some other self, has granted me this perfect contemplation of a language at its dawn.

Jorge Luis Borges, "Embarking on the Study of Anglo-Saxon Grammar," from Selected Poems

[havingapoemwithyou]

try to praise the mutilated world by adam zagajewski tr. clare cavanagh

[kiisuuumii]

Maggie Smith, "Poem with a Line from Bluets," Good Bones

[themindmovement]

“I’m just, you know, kind of happy in the doing of things. Even just having a great cup of coffee is happiness. Getting an idea, or realizing an idea. Working on a painting…working on a piece of sculpture, working on a film. One thing I noticed is that many of us, we do what we call work for a goal. For a result. And in the doing, it’s not that much happiness. And yet that’s our life going by. If you’re transcending every day, building up that happiness, it eventually comes to: it doesn’t matter what your work is. You just get happy in the work. You get happy in the little things and the big things. And if the result isn’t what you dreamed of, it doesn’t kill you, if you enjoyed the doing of it. It’s important that we enjoy the doing of our life.”

— David Lynch

[sparrownotes]

MY FAVORITE PEOPLE ARE THOSE DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH THE WORLD DESPITE KNOWING THEY'RE NOT EXEMPT FROM ITS CRUELTY