i’m full of love but i’m not soft anymore
“I have thought of you often since the darkness,—”— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Maria Whitney c.1878 (via luthienne)
2018 has felt like a retrograde year. So much inner progress but minimal physical manifestations. We only have a few more weeks of this to go. Keep clearing out everything that is weighing you down.
no offense but when am i going to meet more sensitive artistic types my age to start a new artistic, musical, and literary movement with
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details of Kenzo F/W 2011, braided hair adorned with silk flowers
people have to realize that
- some people are just more sensitive
- some people don’t think the same way
- some have different reasons in doing things
- it’s not all about you

Paul Celan, tr. by Patrick Cotter, from Selected Poems; “Crowned Out,” c. 1967
“She smiles unguardedly, and it’s at war with everything I’m used to from her.”— Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility
“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes — they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”— Charles Bukowski, Women (via love-diaries)
I want to be able to memorize poetry, to know the languages of the world, to remember the names of mountains and rivers. I want to be able to turn this mind of mine into a sanctuary. To stay silent as though it were a library or a museum. Beautiful and mystical.