Reblogged poeticgun
There is still a vulnerable part in my neck / that needs clutching, // but I don’t plead anymore.
Tiana Clark, "Gentrification" from Scorched Earth
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Reblogged helloagauniverse
“Because I dived into the abyss I started to love the abyss of which I am made.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Idra Novey (via proustitute)
Reblogged objectnuminous
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
— Agnes Martin, from "Beauty is the Mystery of Life" (1989) (Artbook.com, June 6, 2016) (via Wait-What)
Reblogged blauestunden
The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.
Carl Jung
Reblogged firstfullmoon
Walt Whitman, from "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass
Reblogged iliacl
"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to want to continue looking like girls." — Excerpt from Susan Sontag's 1978 essay The Double Standard of Aging
Reblogged old-glory
“The recognition of abundance fills us with hope that our brightest ideas still await us and our greatest work is yet to come. We are able to live in an energized state of creative momentum, free to make things, let them go, make the next thing, and let it go. With each chapter we make, we gain experience, improve at our craft, and inch closer to who we are.”
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: The Way of Being
Reblogged firstfullmoon
Taste of Cherry (1997) dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Reblogged thepoetryofascension
Banana Yoshimoto, from her novel titled "The Premonition," originally published in 2015
Reblogged sitwithmeinsilence
"but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and it is taking all your strength."
Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
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cptsdhaver
“Humanity’s self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
— Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,“ 1936 (via infiniteradius)