still I rise

Not my art, not my words unless I say so.

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin in a diary entry dated 17 August 1924, from The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin Vol. III: 1923-1927

[stars-bean]

Dark Passage (1947) dir. Delmer Daves

[scribeherself]

still, there are strawberries staining your fingertips, cats asleep in impossible shapes, dog-eared books, thunderstorms heard from beneath warm blankets, handwritten letters, peaches in july, old songs through open windows, the smell of libraries, flowers growing through sidewalk cracks, someone remembering how you take your coffee, and the moon faithfully showing up every night as if she has never once considered giving up on us.

[gnossienne]

Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, "Glamor on the West Streets / Silver Over Everything"

[04k96]

[loveridden1999]

crossfaded somewhere between "there has to be more to life than this" and "every mundane thing is beautiful when you're with people you love"

[paper-wounds]

[weltenwellen]

Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister's House”, A Thousand Mornings

[adicttive]

[weltenwellen]

I Remember The Carrots Ada Limón

[weltenwellen]

Buttercream Joy Sullivan

[weltenwellen]

The Quiet Machine Ada Limón

[literaryvein-reblogs]

a list of "beautiful" words for august

to try to include in your next poem/story

Abozzo - a rough sketch or draft (as of a picture or a poem)

Agrypnia - insomnia

Bouleversement - reversal; a violent disturbance

Cachaça - a Brazilian liquor distilled from sugarcane

Cantillation - recitation with musical tones

Doloriferous - obsolete: producing pain

Fantasticate - to make fantastic

Graphospasm - writer's cramp (i.e., a painful spasmodic contraction of muscles of the hand or fingers brought on by excessive writing)

Immarcescible - imperishable, indestructible

Kakidrosis - secretion of sweat of a disagreeable odor

Ligneous - of or resembling wood

Metempsychosis - the passing of the soul at death into another body either human or animal

Nemoricole - inhabiting groves

Optative - expressing desire or wish

Pastourelle - a conventional form of poetic pastoral composed in French during the late middle ages and Renaissance and consisting of a love debate between a knight and a shepherdess

Secundines - afterbirth

Tramontane - lying on or coming from the other side of a mountain range

Vatic - prophetic, oracular

Vinca - periwinkle

Wiseacre - one who pretends to knowledge or cleverness

More: Lists of Beautiful Words ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[toiich]

Rapture (1965), dir. John Guillermina

[shisasan]

August 2-3, 1920 Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka First published : 1952

[roua-poemului]

“I saw only her. The room was full of her alone.”

— Margarita Aliger on Anna Akhmatova, “A Life of Anna Akhmatova”.