Ada Limón, from “The Hurting Kind,” in The Hurting Kind
[text ID: Before my grandfather died, I asked him what sort / of horse he had growing up. He said, / Just a horse. My horse, with such a tenderness it / rubbed the bones in the ribs all wrong. / I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers. / I am the hurting kind. I keep searching for proof.]
familiarity
just remembered this poem and SCRAMBLED to find it. one of my faves ever
when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College’s 1967 yearbook.
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven
Linnea Paskow - Splitter, 2020
tender love
thomas merton // “eurydice” sarah ruhl // ernest hemingway // anis mojgani “in the pockets of small gods” // lemony snicket // franz kafka “the castle” // @fridayiminlovemp3 (mitski “strawberry blonde”) // mitski “pink in the night” // khalil gibran // gustave flaubert from a letter to george sand, 1876 // danez smith “acknowledgments” // “love freely” E.C. @desultory-suggestions
joseph larusso jr. // sofia nielsen // hafiz // ron hicks // peter wever
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 夢と狂気の王国 dir. Mami Sunada
On Revenge and Grief
Shakespeare // I Saw The Devil // Novica Tadic // Sympathy for Lady Vengeance // Devin Kelly // Kokuhaku // Alejandra Pizarnik // Franz Wright
will never get over the fact that we can love people despite there being countries between us. we can miss people we’ve never seen in person. we can connect and bond over hundreds of things without ever needing to be in each others physical presence. we can have half the globe between us and love never falters.
