Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “Epithalamium”

Trying to make sense of the kind of freedom and tenderness that can only come from so much loneliness

charlotte ager / sean thomas dougherty / félix vallotton / clarice lispector / beya rebaï / may sarton / maria medem / quint buchholz

alternatively I do think it’s funny to be like

Villain: fool! the prophecy says that no man may kill me!

Trans Man Hero: *ineffectual stabbing*

Trans Man Hero: okay so like. the prophetic acknowledgement of my gender is good but also. very inconvenient right now.

— anne carson, from the glass essay

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (Isleworth, Friday 3 November 1876)

Carl Sandburg, from The Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg; “Clark street bridge”

Elektra, Sophocles, trans. Anne Carson, from An Oresteia

bell hooks, from all about love

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922; “A Hero of Labor”

﹙ Text ID: I’ll cry about this earth in heaven too.﹚

Simone Weil, “The Love of God and Affliction,” Waiting for God

louise glück, from averno

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

HOW WE FUCKIN’ FEELIN’, BOYS??? 

steven universe desktop wallpapers

me watching steven universe: future (2020, colorized)

small time travel comic that could technically fit inside fragments. i wanted to explore what our future steven would do in a scenario where he’s at his lowest and has the chance to prevent some of the pain classic steven goes through. how successful his attempt was, i couldn’t tell you. i hope you like it!

Marina Tsvetaeva, tr. by Elaine Feinstein, from Marina Tsvetaeva: Selected Poems, “No one has taken anything away”

i think these go hand in hand <3

— “small kindnesses” by danusha laméris

— ross gay, from the book of delights

growth and change

1. reborn: journals and notebooks, susan sontag

2. photograph, laura bee

3. from selected poems, leonard cohen

4. “from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them, and that is eternity,” edvard munch

5. peaceful transition, tony hoagland

6. painting, charlotte ager

7. letters to a young poet, rainier maria rilke

8. photograph, rimantas dichavičius

9. “poem for a birthday: with burning,” sylvia plath