bluesfading
12K posts
counterfeit emotions only run skin deep
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Text
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
24K notes
·
View notes
Photo
Selected Poems; ‘Dawn’ by Octavio Paz tr. Eliot Weinberger
[ID: I am living / at the center / of a wound still fresh]
7K notes
·
View notes
Text

“You can say anything and I will not abandon you.”
66K notes
·
View notes
Text
nunca pensé que mis manos
fueran a desearte tanto
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
“With you, intimacy colours my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”
— Warsan Shire
86K notes
·
View notes
Text

— Celebrating Childhood by Adonis (translated by Khaled Mattawa)
[text ID: Love and dreams are two parentheses. / Between them I place my body / and discover the world.]
8K notes
·
View notes
Text

— Jennifer S. Cheng, from So We Must Meet Apart
13K notes
·
View notes
Text
“After all, [the world] is on my side. That is, I’m a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground’s walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
14K notes
·
View notes
Text
James Baldwin in conversation with Nikki Giovanni
14K notes
·
View notes