“So, If You Are Too Tired To Speak, Sit Next To Me Because I, Too, Am Fluent In Silence.”

source article

paramore, “interlude: i’m not angry anymore” / martha gellhorn, selected letters / adonis, selected poems; “rage” (tr. khaled mattawa) / anne carson, plainwater: essays and poetry / carole maso, the art lover / jade bird, “furious” / carmen maria machado, in the dream house

meeting someone you loved in a different life

1. tim seibles | 2. fortesa latifi | 3. yehuda amichai | 4. ocean vuong | 5.  benjamin alire sáenz | 6. charlotte brontë | 7. cynthia miller | 8. marie howe | 9. rainer maria rilke | 10. mary oliver 

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

“After Language” by Chaia Heller, from My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman (1996).

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'

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.”

— Terry Pratchett

André Aciman

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