Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Feast”

Heat Map, Richard Siken

probably the best advice I've ever got was from my grandpa when I moved from my town and started a university, he told me to leave the house everytime when I start to feel down, just to go to the park, a supermarket, a bookstore, to even drive in a bus or tram, just be around other people because staying at home all the time kills you; and you know he was right

"what if things were different" is a poisoned well and drinking from it will kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that's worth doing, that's worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same.

Jenny Holzer, “in a forest of words”, 1994

Devin Kelly, from “All That Wanting, Right?”

i don’t know. i’m barely a person. i just want to be kind and hold someone’s hand. eat an ice cream cone. stare at the lake. feel the sun on my skin. lay in the grass. run through a sprinkler. it’s so easy to forget life is supposed to feel like a deep breath and not a gasp

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, Taylor Byas

When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give. 

Ibn Ataallah (rahimullah)