Lament For The Rohirrim, J.R.R. Tolkien

Prologue to F. Dostoevsky's 'Demons' by Jorge Luis Borges

also a poem from the new, unreleased collection. very possibly my own all-time favourite.

gotta give anaxagoras credit, the sun is indeed larger than the peloponnese

For someone who is tired 100% of the time, I sure am bad at sleeping.

Ada Limon said,  “I haven’t given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even.” and “I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.” and  Anis Mojgani said, “Will I be something? Am I something? and the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”

OCCUPATION: was High King of the Noldor

CAUSE OF DEATH: was High King of the Noldor

Anne Sexton, from a letter featured in Anne Sexton; A Self-Portrait In Letters

We Lived Happily During the War, Ilya Kaminsky

— James Baldwin, "Untitled"