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  • #1
    Miranda July
    “All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
    Miranda July, It Chooses You

  • #2
    Kahlil Gibran
    “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”
    Khalil Gibran

  • #3
    Charles Bukowski
    “That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #4
    Charles Bukowski
    “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #5
    Saul Williams
    “Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”
    Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

  • #6
    “Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
    Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
    Emery Allen

  • #7
    “I think I fall in love a little bit with anyone who shows me their soul. This world is so guarded and fearful. I appreciate rawness so much.”
    Emery Allen

  • #8
    “You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.”
    Emery Allen

  • #9
    “Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.”
    Emery Allen

  • #10
    “You don't need another human being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters in your soul but cracks to put their love into is the most calming thing in this world.”
    Emery Allen

  • #11
    “Fill yourself up with love. Become a whole being on your own.
    Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot.
    Live for yourself and be happy on your own.”
    Emery Allen

  • #12
    Warsan Shire
    “two people who were once very close can
    without blame
    or grand betrayal
    become strangers.
    perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #13
    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #14
    Warsan Shire
    “every mouth you’ve ever kissed
    was just practice
    all the bodies you’ve ever undressed
    and ploughed in to
    were preparing you for me.
    i don’t mind tasting them in the
    memory of your mouth
    they were a long hall way
    a door half open
    a single suit case still on the conveyor belt
    was it a long journey?
    did it take you long to find me?
    you’re here now,
    welcome home.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #15
    Warsan Shire
    “you can't make homes out of human beings
    someone should have already told you that”
    warsan shire

  • #16
    Warsan Shire
    “His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #17
    Rupi Kaur
    “i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
    before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
    i am sorry i made it sound as though
    something as simple as what you’re born with
    is all you have to be proud of
    when you have broken mountains with your wit
    from now on i will say things like
    you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
    not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
    but because i need you to know
    you are more than that”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #18
    Rupi Kaur
    “I didn't leave because
    I stopped loving you,
    I left because the longer
    I stayed the less I loved myself.”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #19
    Rupi Kaur
    “Our backs tell stories
    no books have the spine to carry”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #20
    Rupi Kaur
    “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #21
    Rupi Kaur
    “you might not have been my first love
    but you were the love that made
    all other loves seem
    irrelevant”
    Rupi Kaur

  • #22
    Rupi Kaur
    “for you to see beauty here
    does not mean
    there is beauty in me
    it means there is beauty rooted
    so deep within you
    you can't help but
    see it everywhere”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #23
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am water

    soft enough
    to offer life
    tough enough
    to drown it away”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #24
    Rupi Kaur
    “i am a museum full of art
    but you had your eyes shut”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #25
    Rupi Kaur
    “the very thought of you
    has my legs spread apart
    like an easel with a canvas
    begging for art”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
    tags: love

  • #26
    Warsan Shire
    “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #27
    Audre Lorde
    “... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.”
    Audre Lorde

  • #28
    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #30
    Charles Bukowski
    “If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
    Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire



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