Latest Posts by moonshyness - Page 8

"what was your childhood like?" idk I wasn't there

i just need to hold on until the trees start blooming again

girls and the inherent loneliness they have felt all their lives

they need to invent somewhere where I belong

Dongni Hou

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway

how do you deal with anxiety ?

i let it fuck me up then i go to bed

“in order to create loving males we need to love males” means teach boys that they can be themselves without being less of a man. it means being encouraging and nurturing of their emotions so they don’t become cold and hateful. it means showing boys, early in their lives, that they have value outside of what our society deems proper masculinity. what it doesn’t mean is that it’s our job to handhold men who see women as walking sex toys through the concept of empathy, and maybe if we’re really really nice to them and don’t say things that hurt their feelings they’ll stop killing us for saying no

Little bay

*feels my body get anxious for no reason* what is it boy, what do you see?

— February 1, 1922 | Franz Kafka diaries

— Tomas Espedal, in “Tramp: Or the Art of Living a Wild and Poetic Life”

Commission for Michael for his wife for Christmas, to match with a commission from earlier this year.

"Ideals did nothing, however, to move the pen across the page. It scribbled and scratched and staggered with the task at hand. It didn't move through fire, like it once had, yet it still moved."

-The Drunk, The Gambler, and The Lover

ms angelou i will never get over this

Green Path

obsessed w this ("Dostoevsky as lover", Henrik Karlsson)

“I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life — not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.”

— Eileen Myles, “Universal Cycle.” The Importance of Being Iceland. (via llleighsmith)

soft ballet | by misha

america has a functioning democracy where one party tries to kill you and the only other party just campaigns around the fact that they aren’t the party that tries to kill you

poetry is wild because in any given collection 30% of it will make you feel nothing, 60% will make you feel varying levels of confused and curious, and the other 10% will crack open your brain like an egg and reveal new truths about the human condition

Anne Sexton, from “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements” in The Complete Poems

charged guilty with the crime of wanting

i just want to live a quiet soft life but i think i'm literally on the wrong planet for that. the older i get the more i feel like i'm just not made for this world. i don't know what to do about that.