ScalesAndSeaGoat

"One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life."

— Kōbō Abe, from Woman in the Dunes
(via lifeinpoetry)

"I have learned not to fear
the times that are dark.
Some flowers need the light to grow.
Some flowers only bloom for the moon."

— B. Damani || Petal By Petal  (via wearyvoices)

(via theabhorsen)

"I don’t want to set things on fire anymore. / That’s all. That’s all."

— Darshana Suresh, from “Birds on a Power Line,” Howling at the Moon
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(via beholdingslut)

"wolves and girls, girls and wolves
oh, so the stories go
what all these poets dare not say
is that every girl has wolves
pacing rhythms in her heart"

— hear me howl | m.j. (via blakesgriffins)

(via theabhorsen)

"(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)"

— e. e. cummings, excerpt of somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond (via henrydear)

"Flint where I am guilty.
Fire where I am guilty.
Light where I am guilty.

I’m ready to be smacked out of the sky."

— Emily O’Neill, from “Litany for the Waning Moon,” Pelican
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"Hope was my greatest sin."

— Clarice Lispector, from “A Mischievous Little Girl,” Selected Cronicas
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I hoped to be different, I hoped that kissing girls would stop tasting like salt and that I could become someone my parents would be proud of.