“Don’t be afraid to suffer; return that heaviness to the earth’s own weight; heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnet IV,” trans. Stephen Mitchell, in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus
I want the sun to tie itself around my heart and press on me when I forget
“The moon pours a stream of glitter / Into the depths of my soul.”— Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr by Robert Bly, from “Nocturne,” wr. c. 1903
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“She had it all in her.”— Anne Sexton, referring to Sylvia Plath, from a letter c. September 1965
my beautiful sister | Robin
Lana really came thru and gave us another song to cry our eyes out to
