crestfallen

I feel things, intensely.

[soracities]

“It’s pouring, the trees are getting greener before my eyes, I love you. I’m almost afraid of the intensity of this happiness.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, from Letters to Véra tr. by Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd

[luthienne]

Mary Ruefle, from Trances of the Blast; “Abdication”

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“In my mind you’re mine forever.”

— Ben Schneider, lyric from “Mine Forever” by Lord Huron, Long Lost LP (Whispering Pines, 2021)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“And lovers also gather your inheritance. They are the poets of one brief hour. They kiss an expressionless mouth into a smile as if creating it anew, more beautiful. Awakening desire, they make a place where pain can enter; that’s how growing happens. They bring suffering along with their laughter, and longings that had slept and now awaken to weep in a stranger’s arms.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Und du erbst das Grün,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (Riverhead Books, 1996)

[theoptia]

“It is in solitude that being shows its worth.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 7th, 1926

[soracities]

“I had love once in the palm of my hand. See the lines there.”

— John Wieners (1934-2002), from “A Poem For Painters”, in “Selected poems, 1958-1984″     (via halcynth)

[ovid]

but is it even poetry if it doesn’t haunt you a little?

[antigonick]

“We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “Nine Lives”, in The Wind’s Twelve Quarters

[luthienne]

Chen Chen, from When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities; “Elegy”

[khadlja]

all i want is to be well-read, well-spoken, and well-loved.

[medievalswords]

when lizzo said “self love is survival” and when hannah gadsby said “do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? it’s not humility. it’s humiliation” and when mitski said “i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation”

[gnascher]

when audre lorde said “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”

[darkalleysunflower]

when Jenny Slate tweeted, “As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain&more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love”

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Mama here comes midnight With the dead moon in its jaws Must be the big star about to fall”

— Songs: Ohia, lyrics from “Farewell Transmission” by Jason Molina, The Magnolia Electric Co. LP (Secretly Canadian, 2003)

[ohsresearchlibrary]

[mydailybookquotes]

“Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can’t read anymore, write.”

-James Baldwin

[modelsof-color]

Maty N'diaye by Rob Kulisek for Galeries Lafayette Campaign Pre-Fall 2020

[saintjehanne]

Honestly, my goal in life is just to be a very warm person. I want to be as loving and as kind as I can be.

[serratedpens]

Danez Smith, “It Began Right Here”