“And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods.”—
Rainer Maria Rilke, from The Book of Images; To Say Before Going to Sleep. Tr. Edward Snow.
Of Power and Time, Mary Oliver / Liana Finck for the New Yorker
excerpt from I Will Be Leaving the Party Early by oumaima
“you were not only the essence of that moment but of all my moments […]”— Charles Bukowski, from Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit; “Mermaid”
“But my words become stained with your love. You occupy everything, you occupy everything.”— Pablo Neruda
“July. All sensation absent. Only magic, internal magic, your sky-blue soul.”— Velimir Khlebnikov, from Collected Poems & Writings of V. K.; “Visitations,”
“You can fool a lot of yourself but you can’t fool the soul.”— Mary Oliver, from “Sister Turtle” in Winter Hours
“You will outgrow something that was once a comfort; you will replace it with a song you hum in the soft parts of yourself.”— Liv Walton, from “You Will Feel A Flash of Orange,” published c. April 2019
take some time to do something precious + tender for urself sometimes
Sometimes, when I’m careless, I believe the wound is also the place where the skin reencounters itself, asking of each end, where have you been?
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

