why is every “local arts festival” mediocre?

the world is watery & shiny—i don’t know where to look

i learned to write poetry by listening to music and looking at paintings

i think i have too much free time

Don’t sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live. — Paul Celan (translated by Nikolai Popov & Heather McHugh)

Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Jessie Lemont)

Brecht’s poem for W.B.

“There is a world that poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.” -- Mary Ruefle

writer in residence at my parents’ house

the problem with most budding bands, is that the singer shouldn’t be the singer

having footage like this is genuinely equivalent to somehow obtaining footage of mozart or beethoven

Art is just a “heads-up”

“I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.” -- Abbas Kiarostami

E. E. Cummings

i think we underestimate the positive effect the lyrics to the song “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence has had on Gen Z.

Sappho 💙

goddamn The Bear is a bad show

Happy Franz Kafka's "July 1. Too tired." day

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals