Dor

[con-alas-de-angeles]

How would you describe yourself in a sentence?

Me:

[theoptia]

Friedrich Nietzsche, from Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

[theoptia]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

[mournfulroses]

J. M. Grosvalet, from her book titled "Sugar Spells," originally published in 2025

[feral-ballad]

Courtney Marie Andrews, from Old Monarch: Poems; “Watercolor”

[Text ID: “If I were a paint, I’d be a watercolor. / Indecisive and hard to control, / no one wants to handle watercolors / unless they are brave, patient, or mad.”]

[deviika]

Sylvia Plath // Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[theoptia]

Clementine von Radics, from “Letter from Anaïs Nin to Clementine von Radics”

Text ID: For women who are tied to the moon, love alone is not enough.

[white-pilled]

writing job applications and thinking that perhaps I wasn't made for this world

[poemswords]

“It’s not ‘natural’ to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little–have few verbal means. Eloquence–thinking in words–is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality.”

— Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via the-book-diaries)

[quotemadness]

“If drama and stress always seem to find you, maybe it is time to re-evaluate your life, the people in it, and the choices that you make.”

— Unknown

[anthropoetics]

[glorious-destruction]

the feminine urge to become fluent in every language on earth so I can read literature in poetry in their native tongues to get the full effect

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Miguel Hernández, from Selected Poems “Hunger is the Most Important Thing.”

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Arabelle Sicardi, from “The Year in Ugliness.”

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

[macrolit]

“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work, the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.”

— Muriel Spark

[nighttimemuses]

"nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red."

Kait Rokowski