— Geoffrey Hill, from Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 (Oxford University Press, 2014)

T.S. Eliot, from “Gerontion” (via theclassicsreader)

Some more observational drawing. 

Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

it can be tempting to live your life like a prequel. to live as if you’re setting up your own story.and once you lose the weight, once you have the money, once you graduate school, once you’re in a real relationship, once, once, once. then finally, you’ll begin to live, and everything you do up until that point is some kind of half-life, some unimportant foreword you can skip. don’t do this. inhabit your life completely. sink fully into the wealth of your existence. the power to manifest is in the fearless owning of who you are, so that you can shape where you’re going.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, tr. by David McDuff, from “The Brothers Karamazov,” (via atreides)

famous last words that make me go feral and tender at the same time

— “Happy.” Raphael (1520)

— “I’m still learning.” Michelangelo (1564)

— “A great leap in the dark.” Thomas Hobbes (1679)

— “It has all been most interesting.” Mary Wortley Montagu (1762)

— “Now is not the time for making new enemies.” Voltaire, when asked by a priest to renounce Satan before his death (1778)

— “Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.“ Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet, to his wife (1837)

— "Take courage, Charlotte; take courage.” Anne Brontë, to her sister Charlotte Brontë (1849)

— "I must go in, for the fog is rising.“ Emily Dickinson (1886)

— "Now comes the mystery.“ Henry Ward Beecher (1887)

— "Pull up the shades; I don’t want to go home in the dark.“ O. Henry (1910)

— "Swing low, sweet chariot.“ Harriet Tubman (1913)

— "It’s very beautiful over there.“ Thomas Edison (1931)

— "I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.“ Virginia Woolf to her husband (1941)

— "Are you happy? I’m happy.“ Ethel Barrymore (1959)

— "I love you. Sleep well, my sweetheart. Please don’t worry too much.“ Rob Hall, to his wife (1996)

— "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.” Leonard Nimoy (2015)

— "I want to be with Carrie.“ Debbie Reynolds (2016)

me putting my fuzzy socks on:         :-)

Listen. I know you’re afraid—I am too. I know how the body   prays for beauty but remains a shipwreck you are building in my image.

— Michael Wasson, from “Your Shadow Invents You Every Time Light Fails to Pass Through You,” published in Poetry

Miss Elizabeth Bennet Rejecting Your Proposal In A Gazebo As It Rains ASMR

Steps, Frank O’Hara

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via weltenwellen)

— Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet (via luthienne)

Mary Oliver, Upstream  (via feralseraph)

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, “To the Desert”

— Jeanette Winterson, from Lighthousekeeping