I Distance Myself From Myself

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M. A. Thompson - I Won’t Write My Poem ‘Till I’m In My Right Mind X

Mary Oliver X

Richard Siken - road music

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert X

Ada Limón - The Carrying X

Nikki Giovanni - Mirrors X

“I just want to be kind in a world that isn’t”

from “a hunger like no other” || sk osborn

literature | gothic author quotes

Ocean Vuong ||| Nickie Zimov

“Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, / bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. / Sometimes, the men – they come with keys, / and sometimes, the men – they come with hammers.”

— Warsan Shire, from “The House,” Her Blue Body

the name of the person you love is more than language

Patti Smith, Yusef Komunyakaa, Nicki Lantz, Claude McKay, Pablo Neruda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Tennessee Williams, James Joyce

buy me a coffee

I don’t know how to live in this world lightly.

Some memories I grip too tight,

Some crush my shoulders.

- This Anatomy of Melancholy #2 // L.H.Z

“In the evening my griefs come to me one by one. They tell me what I had hoped to forget. They perch on my shoulders like mourning doves. They are the color of light fading.”

— Linda Pastan, from “Old Woman,” The Five Stages of Grief ( W. W. Norton & Company, 1978)

Figment, Leila Chatti

“(…) 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.”

— Bright Dead Things; The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón (via briannaswriter)