“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]
i have no idea how artists spend months, YEARS on paintings. if my drawing doesn't look exactly as i imagine it in the first 30 minutes i'm abandoning it forever
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” - Leonardo da Vinci
“The same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.”
“Its a hard world to be different in.”
“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind”
— Edgar Allen Poe
"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die. I don’t belong, and, my beloved, neither do you.
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. - Victor Hugo
“Morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable” — the secret history, by donna tartt.