Status Updates From Yeniden Doğan

não é o primeiro diário que eu leio, mas é o primeiro que me deixa desconfortável o suficiente para sentir que eu esteja invadindo algo.

D talked incessantly… she feels “evil”… “I’m from New England”

God, living is enormous!

this is so delightful

I am alive… I am beautiful… what else is there?

totallyyyy

“I was once terrifiedly and neurotically religious and thought I should one day become a Catholic, now I feel that I have lesbian tendencies (how reluctantly I write this)—“

Oh Sontag. 💙💙💙💙

“What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship—I am very young, and perhaps the disturbing aspect of my sexual ambitions will be outgrown—frankly, I don’t care. My need is so overwhelming and time, in my obsession, so short—“

12/25/48 
“I’m completely engrossed, at this moment, in one of the most beautiful musical works I’ve ever heard—the Vivaldi B Minor p”

“… Poetry must be: exact, intense, concrete, significant, rhythmical, formal, complex
 
… Art, then, is thus always striving to be independent of the mere intelligence …
 
… Language is not only an instrument but an end in itself …”