Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than The Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“When I love I become liquid light”

— Nizar Qabbani, from “When I Love” (via oiseauperdu)

Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro

get okay with being some level of burden on others, seriously

The Lighthouse (2019) // It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Mac & Dennis Move to The Suburbs (2016) 

robert brault / elizabitchtaylor / marguerite duras / edvard munch / kazuo ishiguro / edgar allan poe / lisa kleypas / frederic william burton / plato / emery allen

Albertine Bookstore, NYC

kissa u

“the sunlight today touched me just like. i wanted it to and still does as i remain here lying. with the grass blades against my arms like obscure lovers. i have never been in love. the sunlight, its warmth. rippling against my light-ached flesh. what i was proud of.”

— Joanna Cleary, from “After Pride,” published in Glass (via lifeinpoetry)

be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.