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the intimacy of having your efforts reciprocated in the same intensity and with the same tenderness

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Mary Oliver, from Long Life: Essays And Other Writings originally published in 2004

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ada limón, the end of poetry

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— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

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Lisel Mueller, “Necessities”

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Emily Dickinson, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

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X (quit my job, escaped to portugal)

#selfie #self-portrait #blonde #lgbtqia #gpoy #selfies #self-portraits #it's a good look to pick yourself

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Una Wood Zvon Ciecivy by Dzivasil Trio on SoundCloud

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Miller's Girl (2024)

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“I’d once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it.”

— Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen

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a girl of fear, a woman of anger— look how we've grown

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anecdote of the pig, tory adkisson // achilles & partoclus // house of dragon, 1x07 // plainwater, anne carson // the truth about forever, sarah dessen // lighthousekeeping, jeanette winterson

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Bilal Al-Shams, Sacrifice

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march by Alex Dimitrov

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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “40”

[Text ID: “because sometimes it is easier to / write yourself out of the play / than to face another breakfast.”]

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“And maybe I will rip out by the roots my postponed hope for love, I will remember that the fruit of every human limit is memory’s absence, which plunges me into becoming…”

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Alda Merini, from “Will I Be Alone” in Love Lessons: Selected Poetry of Alda Merini (translated by Susan Stewart)

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in recognition of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21

#love this every time i see it ❤️