May 8, 1963 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait In Letters First Published: 1977

i want you to read me like a book, turn each page delicately in your hunger to know me more and more. gonna melt your barriers with each word im whispering silently. i want to make you tremble as you enter my realm, deeper and deeper being fully intoxicating with my presence. to make you feel me under your skin with each word you’re reading, forgetting everything you’ve ever known for that moment, letting yourself be taken away into my mind, as a river claiming its prisoner. you can’t fight it now but god, you wouldn’t even dream of escaping now.

so now you belong to me. entirely. wholeheartedly.

"Come with me now to see my world. Where there's beauty beyond your dreams. Can you feel the things I feel? Right now, with you?"

TARZAN (1999) dir. Kevin Lima & Chris Buck

“I like imagining your body is Saturn, my body ten thousand rings wrapped around you.”

— Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase, “Andrew” (via adimlylitmirror)

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

a deep connection can’t be formed without emotional safety. without safety, there’s no trust. without trust, there’s no vulnerability. without vulnerability, there’s no intimacy + without intimacy, there’s no true connection.

Emily Dickinson, from her poem titled "1188," featured in The Emergency Poet

How rare and lovely, the comfort of silence with another soul.

Mary Oliver, “What Was Once the Largest Shopping Center in Northern Ohio Was Built Where There Had Been a Pond I Used to Visit Every Summer Afternoon.” Why I Wake Early

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from The Sleepwalker

[Text ID: "I'm scared, but it doesn't mater, I thought maybe I should wait for some other love, but it would have been a mistake. There's no greater love than what I feel for you."]

every girl i follow or who follows me is an angel