i love youtube comments

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whenever anyone refers to any girl as “not pretty” or “ugly” in front of me I take it extremely! personally

BETYE SAAR / FORGET ME NOT / 1977

mixed media collage on handkerchief
12 × 12 in (30.5 × 30.5 cm)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa of Avila

I have to go to my mind palace

reading vincent van goghs letters and he keeps repeating the same thing..��that i may be of use in the world. he repeats it over and over, in questions, in musings, in desperation. how can i be of use in the world? (the most precious question!) how can i be of use in the world? (how can anyone?) reminds me of that mary oliver quote: to pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. if i were any more insightful i could say something profound here, but i think if we keep focused attention on the question, we may find a way to be of some good. like rilke meant. by loving the questions themselves, we may one day stumble upon the answer.

Nøkken by Theodor Kittelsen

in it’s true form and disguised as a white horse

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-1927; August 12, 1926

Text ID: I will suffer; that is all. I will be strong enough.

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, from Selected Poems; “Elegies”

lacampanella

“Of course we underemphasize our wounds, those of us who must in order to survive. We laugh because this is what we know.”

— — Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, from The Freezer Door

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

Childhood? Which childhood? The one that didn’t last? The one in which you learned to be afraid …?

�� Li-Young Lee, from “A Hymn to Childhood,” Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience

“you accommodate the loneliness that moves into your body”

— — Chioma Urama, from “The Future as Written by 16-Year-Old Girls,” A Body of Water

South London Forever