“The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.” -- June Jordan

an old drunk man told me to enjoy my life and have fun because i’m only 26 and i have so many years and so much life ahead of me and then he went “and you know what? in ten years when you’re 36 you’ll still be young and have your whole life ahead of you” and it was really

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

The simple miracle of feeling at home in your own life.

You need good friends. You need community. You need family. You can’t do this life alone.

i’m never not thinking about agnes’ house in sorry, baby

watching pride and prejudice (1940) and while movies in general may have gotten worse since then, jane austen adaptations have definitely gotten better

the only flag i salute

I'm begging you; no matter how extreme the demoralization gets you must absolutely not abandon your belief in good.

february save me… save me February

january didn't count happy new year everyone

Mary Oliver had a ritual, “Find a poem by a poet you love, read it every morning for a month." She said if one did this, one would have the poem memorized. I also think it would slowly transform you by submersing yourself in its beauty.

— Clarice Lispector

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

You have time. Do not stress.

from the diary of virginia woolf