Longing is the absent chatting with the absent. The distant turning towards the distant. Longing is the spring’s thirst for the jar-carrying women and vice versa. Longing allows distance to recede, as if looking forward, although it may be called hope, were an adventure and a poetic notion. The present tense is hesitant and perplexed, the past tense hangs from a Cypress tree standing on its rooted leg behind a hill, enveloped in its dark green, listening intently to one sound only : the sound of the wind. Longing is the sound of the wind.
—Mahmoud Darwish, from “XIV”, In the Presence of Absence. Archipelago, 2011
“She is written in a foreign tongue.”
- Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
(via)
your hand touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. ― Sanober Khan
― Carolyn Forché / Katatsumori (Naomi Kawase, 1994) / John Berger / Katrien de Blauwer / Hélène Cixous / Bruno Munari / Eli Craven / Sharon Olds / Hart Crane / A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019) / Mary Ruefle / Robert Bly / Hans Bellmer / Richard Siken / Eli Craven / Cassandra Clare / Katrien de Blauwer / Louise Glück ―
Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping
Long nights.Coffee stained books. Dark circles. Half full cups scattered around a dimly lit room. Heavy rain hitting off a window. Water filling the gutters. Tchaikovsky playing quietly on a record player. A neighboring houses window open wide enough to hear the soft violin chords. Shy smiles at books. Half closed eyes. Soft hums.
- Coffeemood
where's the header image from, reminds me of something
I don't remember, but it's so good.
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anaïs Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Send me 🍓 if I give off feminine vibes
Send me 🍉 if I give off masculine vibes
Send me 🍎 if I give off androgynous vibes
Send me 🍇 if I give off vibes that don’t fit any of the ones above
~✨~
Send me 🌸 if I give off kid vibes
Send me 🌲 if I give off teen vibes
Send me 🐬 if I give off early adult vibes
Send me 🐶 if I give off adult vibes
Send me 🦊 if I give off elderly vibes
Send me 👀 if I give off immortal vibes
~✨~
Send me 🐷 if I give off friendly vibes
Send me 🐸 if I give off hyper vibes
Send me 🦋 if I give off soft vibes
Send me 🍁 if I give off angry vibes
Send me 🐚 if I give off quiet vibes
Send me 🌹 if I give off strong vibes
Send me ⭐️ if I give off a different type of vibe (tell me the vibe!)
~✨~
Send me 🔥 if I give off short vibes
Send me ☀️ if I give off tall vibes
Send me 💧 if I give off medium vibes
~✨~
Send me 🎤 + any other vibes I give off
“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”
“Listen to me, girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, Queens cower before no man.”
— Nikita Gill