nowhere child

― James Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays

A doubting Thomas is a skeptic who refuses to believe without direct personal experience. 50-60 years ago, it was not uncommon for people to think or believe that being gay was a phase or a mental illness or deviance in some shape or form. It's embarrassing that the same things are being said about trans people today."

— Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) American poet and author

I keep your love in a locket

Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

Elaine Feinstein, from Collected Poems and Translations; “Muse for E. T.,”

paradise crow’s giant river mussel on pearl troca feet

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke c. June 1926 (via violentwavesofemotion)

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— Sylvia Plath, 13 October 1959, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

— GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, One Hundred Years of Solitude

found a pearl today !