If You Rest A Lot Because You Are Chronically Fatigued, That’s Okay. If You Find It Hard To Focus Or

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours  (via abattoirette)

creating myself

Anne Carson, from Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

Text ID: DESPITE HER PAIN, ANOTHER DAY

Christopher Isherwood's diaries, September 8, 1960

What do you think all writers have in common?

an overwhelming and insatiable longing for something more than this

pin her up against the wall like the masterpiece she is

deciding i was pretty was the best thing that i ever did

one day i was just like

fuck this im pretty

and i was

Aren’t you gay?

I like how this implies I did something heterosexual. If so, I apologize.

-Anaïs Nin, 1939