Clarice Lispector On The Unknowable Heaviness Of Existing 

"One can never be too prepared for love."

- siyah

the only person that understands me is richard siken

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Michel de Montaigne

Kristen Miranda // F. Scott Fitzgerald // r.i.d.

“Please — consider me a dream.”

— Franz Kafka; ‘Once while visiting his friend Max Brod, young Kafka awakened Brod’s father, who was asleep on a couch. Instead of apologizing, Kafka gently montioned him to relax, advanced through the room on tiptoe, and said softly: “Please – consider me a dream.”’ from Franz Kafka (Franz Baumer)

“and kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea i shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.”

“i have only one thing to do and that’s be the wave that i am and then sink back into the ocean.”

THE SEA AS A PLACE OF BEGINNING AND ENDING

anne carson | geyser, mitski | rafael campo | ilya glazunov | slothrust | @ mild.moon on instagram | fernand braudel | bertil nilsson | a metamorfose dos pássaros (catarina vasconcelos, 2020) | fiona apple

“The Good Fight” Ada Limón, “Infinite Jest” David Foster Wallace, “Ophelia” John Everett Millais, “Red Doc” Anne Carson, “I wanted to be the knife” Sara Sutterlin, “A primer for the small weird loves” Richard Siken, “First memory” Louise Glück.

“And where should I go now that I’ve reached the sea?”

— Jennifer Chang, from “Myself — Be Noon to Him”, Some Say the Lark (via voirlvmer)

There are 5 types of fear

1. Terror 2. Panic 3. 14 missed calls from mom 4. Username or password is incorrect 5. “We need to talk”

"Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it."