watchoutforintellect:

“Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.”

— Jean Paul Sartre - from a letter to Simone de Beauvoir

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Victoria Chang, from “Pear Tree”

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Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

pollen:

Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself” in Leaves of Grass

weltenwellen:

Ada Limón, “While Everything Else Was Falling Apart”

petaltexturedskies:

Because it is spring; because once more the moon and the earth are eloping - a love match that will bring forth fantastic children who will learn to stand, walk, and finally run over the surface of earth; who will believe, for years, that everything is possible.

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon

elizabethanism:

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

Simone Weil

ahuntersheart:

“We had no choice but to live
in a time of abrupt flowers.”

-Dean Young, from “The Commendation”

fruitblr:

Taste of Cherry (1997) dir. Abbas Kiarostami

watchoutforintellect:

Beware feeling you’re not good enough to deserve it.
Beware feeling you’re too good to need it.

Beware all the hatred you’ve stored up inside you, and the locks on your tender places.

Audre Lorde, from a letter to Pat Parker in December 1985

kiki-de-la-petite-flaque:

We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others.

–Albert Camus

pollen:

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Margaret Atwood, from “February”

crystalclaire:

exerpt from “John Chapman” in American Primitive by Mary Oliver

existential-celestial:

Paul Celan, from “Threadsuns,” from BREATHTURN INTO TIMESTEAD: THE COLLECTED LATER POETRY A BILINGUAL EDITION (translated by Pierre Joris)