“Do not be afraid to suffer, give the heaviness back to the weight of the earth; mountains are heavy, seas are heavy. Even those trees you planted as children became too heavy long ago - you couldn’t carry them now. But you can carry the winds… and the open spaces…”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. by Robert Bly
“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”
— R. Arnold
obsessed with the opposite of the childhood friends trope. what if we were just some guys meeting for the first time with like. no significance
Seb bowing to fans in a parking lot.
source: livia_soos on insta
on growing up
franz wright god's silence: "father roger goes for a walk" \\ @ritikajyala the flesh i burned (visualiser) \\ christoffer relander first snow \\ @goodbyevitamin big star fizzing (at the turn of a new month) \\ deborah stevenson once upon a time \\ pink floyd childhood's end
kofi
on being her friend
“funeral”, phoebe bridgers / “pink skies”, lany / “jean and susan”, john bratby / “a summer’s tale”, dir. éric rohmer / “cupid’s chokehold / breakfast in america”, gym class heroes / untitled, @doriantomybasil / “piglet’s big movie”, dir. francis glebas / “by means which have never yet been tried” (orphan black: season two, episode ten), dir. john fawcett.
Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
when oscar wilde said 'i am tired of myself tonight, i should like to be someone else' and when sylvia plath said 'i wish i knew what to do with my life, what to do with my heart' and when rilke said 'this heavy humanness'