there's a misogynist aspect of Buddhism

"Irresolute as I am I still love you, and yet I must hope for nothing. I have renounced life, and stript myself of everything, but I find I neither have nor can renounce my Abelard. Though I have lost my lover I still preserve my love. O vows! O convent! I have not lost my humanity under your inexorable discipline! You have not turned me to marble by changing my habit; my heart is not hardened by my imprisonment; I am still sensible to what has touched me, though, alas! I ought not to be!"

i don't want to talk about anything

I dont feel like pretending anymore

reading through Dickinson poems and I'm reminded of the James Baldwin quote about dostoevsky...she's lived my whole life, and if I ever wanted to write about anything then she's already written a poem describing it perfectly, it makes me wonder why I should even bother to write

hey so you were actually my new years' resolution and your birthday is my Instagram password

"Not since Rimbaud said “I is another” has an artist been so obsessed with escaping identity."

“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”

i got tired of waiting for you

just write a little bit, a little bit every day, and soon enough you will have a novel

monday is a promise