Jeff Buckley “I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)”
Jeff Buckley “I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)”
— Maggie Nelson, Bluets
[text ID: And what kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?]
A man should smell better than his country—
such is the silence
of a woman who speaks against silence, knowing
silence moves us to speak.Ilya Kaminsky, “While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
[I love you. Infinitely and inexpressibly. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night and here I am writing this. My love, my happiness.]
Dandelions and insects. Child-library readers. Book 3. 1923.
“I feel very small. I don’t understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
i’m all the people i’ve ever loved
loseness lines over time by olivia de recat, @i-wrotethisforme, Kaveh Akbar, Olivie Blake