18th century daggers from India and Turkey
Please come, and bathe me in serenity again. Yes, I was wholly and entirely happy. If you could have uncored me—you would have seen every nerve running fire—intense, but calm.
Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West wr. c. December 1926
Maybe it’s better to have the terrible times first. I don’t know. Maybe then, you can have, if you live, a better life, a real life, because you had to fight so hard to get it away⸺you know?⸺from the mad dog who held it in his teeth. But then your life has all those tooth marks, too, all those tatters and all that blood.
James Baldwin This morning, this evening, so soon
22.03.2024
Throwback to 2 weeks ago, my study-for-exam essentials: a hot drink, music (cd so I don't use my phone, and I can listen on loop for hours), lots of pens, cute little lights, post-it (life saving)
“I watch him in the kitchen, and I think of how much it hurts to love somebody. How deep the hurt is, how almost unbearable. It’s not the love that hurts; it’s the possibility of anything happening to the object of your love.”
— Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
feeling better
happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !
"anything worth doing is worth doing badly"............."not failing as he fell but just coming to the end of his triumph"......goodnight (it's noon)
snoopy reads mary oliver!!
i’ll never get tired of seeing this quote
Silverdale, Washington by The Roving Hayseed
Mary Oliver, from New and selected poems, vol. Il
too many movies have been ruined by not casting ugly people
Buy her flowers? Nah, I wana raise a garden with her.
“To know the night is a lot like knowing poetry, and knowing poetry requires what Keats called “negative capability,” the capacity for “being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” To know the night means having the clarity that some things are and should be and always will be hidden, for the night has been, or is, or should always be, the time of lovers, revolutionaries, and other conspirators. The night world is that which should be, or once always was, veiled.”
— Anne Boyer, from her essay “The Fall of Night”, Lapham’s Quarterly, Volume XII, Number 1 | Winter 2019 (via kitchen-light)