inanothertime

“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh,
and you cannot help but want me.
You think it's cruel
how I break your heart, to write a poem.
I think it's alchemy.”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.”
― Charles Mingus

“Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be oneself. If you give love, you lose love.
Abdicate from life so as not to abdicate from oneself.
Woman is rich source of dreams. Never touch her.
Learn to separate the concepts of voluptuousness and pleasure.
Learn to take pleasure not in what something actually is, but in the ideas and dreams it provokes. For nothing is what it is: dreams are always dreams. That's why you must touch nothing. If you touch your dream will die and the touched object will then fill your senses.
Seeing and hearing are the only noble things in life. Thr other senses are plebian and carnal. True aristocracy means never touching anything. Never go too near ― that is true nobility.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us