kafk-a:

Anne Carson, ‘Kinds of Water: An Essay on the Road to Compostela’ from Anthropology of Water, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

violentwavesofemotion:

“I have cared deeply and bitterly. But something is broken.”

D. H. Lawrence, from a letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith wr. c. February 1917

memoryslandscape:

“Something in your past wants to be touched, healed.”

Tiana Clark, from “I Started Praying for You,” I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)

soracities:

“All I want is silence, for myself and for the selves I used to be.”

— Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘Extracting the Stone of Madness’, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (trans. Yvette Siegert)

trainthief:

Literally just romanticize your own life. What’s stopping you. Who will care. Commit to enjoying things.