I [forgive] myself for loving
those who have harmed me for cooking them dinner & burning the rice forgetting to add pepper or make myself a plate I [forgive] myself for staying I [forgive]
myself for staying until I left my skin
— Brandon Melendez, from “Standing at The Mirror, The Author Writes A Poem for Himself in Which the Word Hate Is Replaced with The Word Forgive,” published in Frontier Poetry
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Richard Siken, Crush (Little Beast)
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire)
Margaret Atwood
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Yves Olade, Bloodsport
this was always going to happen.
matthew stover, david levithan, margarita karapanou, aeschylus, karese burrows, richard siken
All About Love, bell hooks | Snow and Dirty Rain, Richard Siken
LOVE AS VIOLENCE VS LOVE AS SOFTNESS
Ada Limon, The Good Fight // Mary Oliver, West Wind // Danez Smith, Bare // Sappho, Fragment 58.25-26 // Mitski, I Don’t Smoke // Ashe Vernon // Hozier, Cherry Wine // Shauna Barbosa, GPS // Richard Siken, Little Beast // Chen Chen, Summer [The sunflowers fall…] // Warsan Shire // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Love Me More - Mitski
{Quotes: Alejandra Pizarnik, Approximations/Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-9; Sunday, October 7/chen chen, nature poem in ‘when i grow up i want to be a list of further possibilities’/sue zhao/ Sylvia path / Maggie Nelson, Bluets/Richard siken/Ingeborg Bachmann, In the Storm of Roses from ‘The Poem for the Reader’, tr. Mark Anderson ,paintings: pinterest}
The Flies, Jean-Paul Sartre
i once believed love would be burning red. but it’s golden.
daisy jones & the six - taylor jenkins reid // feels like - gracie abrams // the kiss - gustav klimt // taylor swift talking about daylight // long story short - taylor swift // howelljenkins on tumblr // halley’s comet - billie eilish // prologue of “red” - taylor swift // campanella on tumblr // sweet nothing - taylor swift // the notebooks of malte laudris brigge - rainer maria rilke
Janet Fitch, from White Oleander (1999)
[image description: screenshot of text that reads, “Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you.” /end description]
@sandarafreedompark / Sade Andria Zabala / Unknown / @danielederossi / Kiki Nicole / Giovanni Gasparro / Trista Mateer / Anne Sexton / The Coral
i wish i didn’t flinch every time you went to hold me
Anais Nin, Mirages: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1939-1947
