Quit Being Embarrassed About Your Interests. We’re All Just Spinning Through Time And Space On A Floating

Mako hate? In 2021?

Weird.

Anne Carson, from Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

Text ID: DESPITE HER PAIN, ANOTHER DAY

Classic lit isn't relatable TO YOU. I have something wrong with me though

self care is also being honest with yourself about your negative habits and mistakes. it’s also taking ownership of your faults and growing from them. self care is diverting from a negative space to a positive one. creating light and balance. blooming. watering your own flowers. being gentle but honest with yourself.

so take care.

You’re in her dms, I’m in those cryptic, prophetic dreams she keeps having. We’re not the same

I’m too fine to not be between someone’s daughters legs

if you want something, be intentional about it

I think, therefore I am (exhausted)

“Don’t be afraid to suffer—take your heaviness / and give it back to the earth’s own weight; / the mountains are heavy, the oceans are heavy.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Poetry of Rilke; “Sonnets to Orpheus”

“Poetry allows silences, screams, distances, leaps.”

— Valzyhna Mort, from “Short Conversations With Poets Valzhyna Mort by Ilya Kaminsky”, published in McSweeney’s, November 21, 2020