“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out my ears, my eyes, my noseholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a fucking meteor!”
— — Audre Lorde, from “A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer,” The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (via lifeinpoetry)
It’s called love and it’s stored in the me
Princess Mononoke (1997) My Neighbir Totoro (1988) The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
Insist on believing that good will prevail; that the work will get done; that there will again be love. We have to want to get up in the morning for the good mornings to arrive.
- Tennessee Williams, in Follies of God, June 29, 2023 (via Alive on All Channels)
“From tiny experiences we build cathedrals.”
— Orhan Pamuk, The Art of Fiction No. 187 (via theparisreview)
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via podencos)