“Sometimes I feel I spend my whole life rewriting the same page.”
– Anne Carson, from “Cassandra Float Can,” Float
This is more it than anything else ever has been.
“The key, I believe, for pulling yourself out of the limbo of not knowing who you are or not embracing who you are, is to love something enough to not care. Sometimes it takes us a long time to find it. There are so many things out there, there’s so much nuance to being human beings, it sometimes takes a really long time to locate it”— Joanna Newsom
“In these dreams it’s always you: the boy in the sweatshirt, the boy on the bridge, the boy who always keeps me from jumping off the bridge. Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.”— Richard Siken, “I Had a Dream About You” (via fauxpas)
“Imagine a room, a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart, my throat, my wrist. Here are the illuminated cities at the center of me, and here is the center of me, which is a lake, which is a well that we can drink from, but I can’t go through with it. I just don’t want to die anymore.”— Richard Siken, from ‘Saying Your Names’, Crush (via lvslie)