And miles to go before I sleep

My name is Jasmine and I'm a writer.

[macrolit]

“On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself–on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.”

— Simone de Beauvoir (b. 9 January 1909)

[polkadotmotmot]

Vanessa Stockard - Failing Successfully, 2023 - Oil on dibond

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— W.H. Auden

[mentaltimetraveller]

Elizabeth Peyton Dr. Scarpinato (Vincent), 2007 oil on medium-density  breboard 30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 × 9 in)

[weltenwellen]

E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems, 1904-1962

[ashstfu]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY

[mournfulroses]

Velimir Khlebnikov, from The Collected Works of Velimir Khlebnikov; “Lyrics,”

[mournfulroses]

D. H. Lawrence, from The Complete Works; “The Rainbow,” written c. 1919

[weltenwellen]

Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Nguyen”, Not Here

[flowerytale]

Kate Chopin, from The Awakening

[lemuseum]

[petaltexturedskies]

Michael Cunningham, from "Ever After" in A Wild Swann & Other Tales

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to C.H. Clark, dated May 1 1883

[emmaklee]

[seraphinesaintclair]

Margaret Steele Anderson, “The Mystic.”

[kosmogrl]

Portugal on 35mm film by Raoul Pascal

[flowerytale]

John Keats, from To The Ladies Who Saw Me Crown’d