Everything

This blog is about my obsession.

[whatiwannabecalled]

tortured all the time. poet, occasionally.

[soulswans]

in the club asking people if they prefer paperback or hardcover books

[fairycosmos]

in so many situations i shouldve just acted fucking worse idc

[fromhersoul]

you relapsed on yearning again didn’t you

[whatiwannabecalled]

its a love story and baby, she said YES!!

[whatiwannabecalled]

Before you came things were just what they were:

the road precisely a road, the horizon fixed,

the limit of what could be seen,

a glass of wine was no more than a glass of wine.

With you the world took on the spectrum

radiating from my heart: your eyes gold

as they open to me, slate the color

that falls each time I lost all hope.

With your advent roses burst into flame:

you were the artist of dried-up leaves, sorceress

who flicked her wrist to change dust into soot.

You lacquered the night black.

As for the sky, the road, the cup of wine:

one was my tear-drenched shirt,

the other an aching nerve,

the third a mirror that never reflected the same thing.

Now you are here again—stay with me.

This time things will fall into place;

the road can be the road,

the sky nothing but sky;

the glass of wine, as it should be, the glass of wine.

[whatiwannabecalled]

‘Alone’ by Edgar Allan Poe

[whatiwannabecalled]

[primulaceas]

Eileen Myles, "Sleepless." I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014

[lunamonchtuna]

— Arundhati Roy, from The God of Small Things (via lunamonchtuna)

[lordbyronsays]

i am, as the poets say, a mess

[minuty]

“I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.”

—

[whatiwannabecalled]

"They say nothing lasts forever but they're just scared it will last longer than they can love it."

-On Earth We Are Briefly Gorgeous

A masterpiece by Ocean Vuong.

[whatiwannabecalled]

“I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”

[whatiwannabecalled]

[whatiwannabecalled]

"The beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Maud'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place."

-from "Manual of Muad'dib" by the Princess Irulan

[whatiwannabecalled]

“I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”