No One Talks About How Hard It Is When Your Mood Is Constantly Switching Between "its Okay, I Don't Care.

—Albert Camus

— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Henri Cole, from a poem titled "Twilight," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, from "Elm", a poem she wrote after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Fainlight (dated Saturday, 8 September 1962)

Kaveh Akbar, from "Famous Americans And Why They Were Wrong", Pilgrim Bell

Maria Gray, from “Bad Nostalgia”

Joy Sullivan, from “These Days People Are Really Selling Me On California”, Instructions for Traveling West