Romanticize Even The Most Mundane Things In Your Life

When you change, don’t announce it. Just bloom.

My head in the rainclouds,

my heart in the sky

~ Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.”

— Nishan Panwar

“Poetry is the end for me. It’s always what I go back to, and everything is filtered through that.”

— Terrance Hayes, interviewed by Jeffrey J. Williams for Lit Hub (via bostonpoetryslam)

The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them;

what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star...

~ Donna Tartt, The Secret History

they’re not wrong

all the cool kids were obsessed with ancient Egypt at some point

ig credit: laurasreadingtime

Skipping the gym today and letting my body rest. I think of food as medicine now. So when I’m tired and feel out of it I nourish it. I hope you do too.