When People Show U Compassion And Love Even When U Make A Mistake - That Feels Truly Revolutionary

“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

Zendaya said "I'm grown now and talented and any character I play from here on out will smoke cigarettes in a crisis and be lanky and yall gon like it." And honestly I support it.

I think real maturity starts when u decide other people’s actions, words, and opinions no longer have an effect on your individual journey. This life you build is about you, for you, from you.

oh haven’t you heard???? things will get better and you will be okay

“we will meet again in the cool of an olive-grove, beneath a sky of lasting blue– in the kisses of love.”

— Aleksandr Pushkin. from “I Cannot Forget That Hour” (trans. Robert Chandler)

i carry a lot of hurt in my heart but that will not stop me from growing and healing and becoming better than i have ever been

“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”

september will be golden and warmed by the love in our hearts