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"You stand red-handed. You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grass

What are you supposed to do with all this loss?"

— trying to wash the guilt away

1. franz kafka, letters to milena 2. album art for el pintor by interpol 3. margaret atwood, morning in the burned house 4. somto ihezue, all the stones that built me 5. jihoon yang, "blue rain", 2020 6. matthew nienow, lupa 7. succession 2x01 8. mitski, "humpty" 9. william shakespeare, macbeth, 2.2.78-81 10. alfred stevens, "lady macbeth".

“There is nothing prettier than a city at 5 AM with its empty streets and cold wind.”

—

Wishing for Birds, Elisabeth Hewer

on love and being haunted

to be haunted - jessie lynn mcmains / haunting of hill house / @catilinas / phoebe bridgers album art / pope alexander - crywank / @martyrdomism / ocean vuong / philip larkin

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

— Terry Pratchett

Forugh Farrokhzad, tr. by Sholeh Wolpé, from “Captive”, Sin

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'

I like art that depicts women not posing seductively or gracefully but simply existing as human beings.

Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“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