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“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”

— Franz Kafka

MAY: ephemerality, emptiness, evolution & ecstasy.

May 3, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1914

May, Christina Rossetti

Mural, Mahmoud Darwish

Courage, Anne Sexton

Letters to Véra, Vladimir Nabokov

May Morning, Stephen Vincent Benet

The Sensible Thing, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Young May Moon, Thomas Moore

Spring: House of Light, Mary Oliver

Corinna’s Going a Maying, Robert Herrick

May 27, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

“I’m 24 years old and play this game with myself: buy myself something delicious for the weekend, blueberry muffins or flaky croissants, and forget it by Friday. Saturday morning comes and I am lucky to know me. I wasn’t born knowing how to love me, but I’m learning now; catching up for lost time between us. I keep the windows open. I play oldies throughout every corner of my apartment. I tell the dog how good it feels, at least for today, at least for right now, to be alive.”

— Schuyler Peck, Can’t Get Enough Of My Love  (via weltenwellen)

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the floor in the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock. There’s daytime silent when I stare, and a nighttime silent when I do things. There’s shower silent and bath silent and […] car silent and then there’s the silence that comes back, a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore. That’s how this machine works.”

— Ada Limón, excerpt of “The Quiet Machine”, in Bright Dead Things

It’s so crazy how humans r social creatures but we’re stuck in this hell hole of late stage capitalism that convinces us we can not only heal in isolation but thrive in it too, find purpose and dedication and make a lifestyle out of it, and only at the end of that tiresome road can we reward ourselves by leaving desolation behind and replacing it with community when the whole time it’s always companionship and love and understanding that we need, it’s always someone we can share with to know we are not alone in this place and this pain...

i am a serene and lovely person. yes absolutely everything bothers me & i go through life in a state of constant aggravation and annoyance & have to physically restrain myself from breaking down in tears over how utterly irritated i am sometimes. but i am serene and lovely nonetheless

just learned about the 3D printed project digital grotesque II and it’s a quite a dream

ON FRIENDSHIP

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000) //  Four Friends, 2019 by Salman Toor (b. 1983) //  abandonment (the pair), henri de toulouse-lautrec //  A Summer’s Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer // this post

A.F. Vandevorst installation for Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011

litany in which certain things are crossed out - richard siken // mirages: an unexpurgated diary of anaïs nin, 1939-1947 - anaïs nin // 2x06 - fleabag // love is my religion- ziggy marley // take me to church - hozier // 1950 - king princess // fine line - harry styles // today I'm someone else - chelsea hodson // a letter to fanny brawne, 13 october 1819 - john keats // sacrilege redux - ashe vernon // planet of love - richard siken // song of the fox - margaret atwood // the brothers karamazov - fyodor dostoevsky // sappho // horatio - t. j. klune // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // the raven king - maggie stiefvater // nox - anne carson // i know what you think of me - tim kreider // figuring - maria popova // journals and miscellaneous notebooks 1838-1842 - ralph waldo emerson // on earth we're briefly gorgeos - ocean vuong // more than friends - faraaz kazi // red doc> - anne carson // 3x10 - wtfock // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // jenny slate // an oresteia - euripides (trans. anne carson) // wuthering heights - emily brontë // the song of achilles - madeline miller // global cultures: a transnational short fiction reader - elisabeth young-bruehl // red, white, and royal blue - casey mcquinston // a child's definition of love // small wire - anne sexton // the dead poet's society - peter weir // our beutiful life when it's filled with shreiks - christopher citro // stay here - gaho // keith haring diaries - keith haring // latin phrase // hozier // dooms day - bastille // guilty of dust - frank bidart

Us Against You (Fredrik Backman)/ Detail of the Fire (Richard Siken)/ Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

A Little Life (Hanya Yanigahara)/ Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)/ Souvenir (boygenius)/ Self-Portrait Agianst Red Wallpaper (Richard Siken)

“Conversation should touch everything, but concentrate itself on nothing.” – Oscar Wilde

Executive dysfunction in a nutshell

“fuck you my child is fine” ma’am your child was a pleasure to have in class

a good and sensible adventure story.

miranda july / don delillo / holly warburton / richard siken / aaron diaz / ross gay / robert anton wilson / david foster wallace

“little beast” richard siken / “samson” regina spektor / “fatima and manoubia” by alexandre roubtzoff / “break my heart” joy harjo / sappho trans. anne carson / “ginger and olive oil” by moju manuli

simmer - hayley williams / the bell jar - sylvia plath / cop car - mitski / judith slaying holofernes - artemisia gentileschi / fast as you can - fiona apple / animal- aurora / salome - jean benner / tonight i am someone else - chelsea hodson / wishbone - richard siken / ride - lana del rey

My Chemical Romance, "I Never Told You What I Do For A Living" (2004) / Edward John Poynter, The Ides Of March (1883) / William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III.i.58-60 / Julius Caesar, V.v.13-14 / William Holmes Sullivan, 'Julius Caesar,' Act II, scene 3, The Conspiracy / Julius Caesar, V.i.56-58/ Julius Caesar, II.i.76-81

hi what are your favorite love poems/letters?

I have a compilation of my absolute favourite love letters

as for poems:

“Having a Coke with You” “For Grace, After a Party” and “Morning Poem” by Frank O’Hara

“Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled With Shrieks” by Christopher Citro

“Elegy for My Sadness” and “Song of the Anti-Sisyphus” by Chen Chen

“Intifada Incantation: Poem 38 for b.b.L.” “Poem for My Love” and various poems for Haruko by June Jordan

“One Last Poem for Richard” by Sandra Cisneros

“Snow and Dirty Rain” by Richard Siken

“Wish” and “In Time” by W. S. Merwin

“A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention” by Yehuda Amichai

“Like a Small Café, That’s Love” by Mahmoud Darwish

“Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally A Love Poem” by Bob Hicok

“For M” by Mikko Harvey

“To Kiss a Forehead” by Marina Tsvetaeva

“When I Tell My Husband I Miss The Sun, He Knows” by Paige Lewis

“The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel

“Morning Love Poem” by Tara Skurtu

“[Of all the things I have done, I am most proud of our relationship]” and “Aubade” by Yanyi

some French ones:  “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” “Les espaces du sommeil” by Robert Desnos, “Les yeux d’Elsa” “Les mains d’Elsa” by Louis Aragon, “La courbe de tes yeux” “Ma morte vivante” “J’ai fermé les yeux” by Paul Eluard

ON BATHING YOUR LOVER

Ilya Kaminsky, “While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses” / Joni Mitchell, All I Want / John Edmonds, “Men Like Us,” New York Times Style Magazine / u/expensivetill9 on Reddit / Mitski, I Will / Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / David Hockney, Domestic Scene / Elizabeth Bishop, “The Shampoo” / Homer, The Odyssey

A reminder that healing is not linear, does not happen overnight and sometimes you discover wounds that you didn’t even know were there. Set backs are a part of your journey. Be easy on yourself.

paradoxical quotes are the best and makes my ne happy.

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” Banksy.

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”  Frank Herbert.

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” Soren Kierkegaard.  

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain.   (this rules! think about it!)

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi.

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw.

“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ” Zsa Zsa Gabor.

“Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.” Stephen McCranie.  

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”  Oscar Wilde.

“It’s weird not to be weird.” John Lennon.

“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” C. JoyBell C.  

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong. 

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” Criss Jami.

“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”  Ellen DeGeneres.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida.

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”  Michel de Montaigne.

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Albert Einstein.

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”  Stephen King.

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”  Tony Schwartz.