Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down

— Anaïs Nin, from The Voice

YOU ARE YOUNG AND YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO BE A PERSON ⭐️ 1) Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón (2015) / 2) Katrin Lillenthal // 3) At the Kitchen Sink by Camille. A. Balla // 5) From this Ask Polly 6) Little Weirds by Jenny Slate (2019) // 7) NASA // 8) The Diaries 1910 - 1923 by Franz Kafka // 9) this photo here // 10) Blue Horses poems by Mary Oliver

regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson

“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”

Helen Oyeyemi, from “White Is for Witching”  

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

October by Mary Oliver

[Text ID: “But how ironic I must be / to have entered a language / wherein I mistake / I will leave you / for / I will love you”]

[Text ID: “Whether you want it or not, in you sleeps a woman of war,”]

[text ID: The whiskey stink of rot has settled / in the garden, and a burst of fruit flies rises / when I touch the dying tomato plants. / Still, the claws of tiny yellow blossoms / flail in the air as I pull the vines up by the roots / and toss them in the compost. / It feels cruel. Something in me isn’t ready / to let go of summer so easily. To destroy / what I’ve carefully cultivated all these months. / Those pale flowers might still have time to fruit. / My great-grandmother sang with the girls of her village / as they pulled the flax. Songs so old / and so tied to the season that the very sound / seemed to turn the weather.]    

― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

trista mateer, from “girl, isolated”

willem & jude + the moon song