"Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it."
“here’s the sea / anyway in front of you, here’s the / rest / (the waves whispering, as if waves could whisper)”
— Carl Phillips, from “Blue Wash on Linen Canvas, Believed Unfinished”, Pale Colors in a Tall Field (via voirlvmer)
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-Oscar Wilde
“He placed his mouth on her throat, kissing the words she could not utter. He seemed to divine where she wanted a kiss to fall next, what part of her body demanded to be warmed.”
“But the best walking is without reason, formless, scattering the self into thinking, more winter.”
— Jennifer Chang, from “We Found the Body of a Young Deer Once”, Some Say the Lark
“and like the
moon, we must
go through
phases of
emptiness to feel
full again.”
“Let us be misplaced together. Like short walks through big cities. Like hard work on Sunday mornings.”
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."― Ernest Hemingway
excited to go back to campus in the fall! hopefully i’ll get the chance to attend some in person seminar courses.
Tired of the “she did nothing wrong” mindset. She did EVERYTHING wrong and I’m still on her side and that’s true dedication baby.