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I love tree

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

Sylvia Plath Letter to her mother 24 February 1956

what the hell did I just read

Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27

Is there any more beautiful Latin word than silvicultrix, ‘she who dwells in the woods’?

― Wallace Stevens, The Dwarf

it is the month for one of my favorite poems ever

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

Reading Destiny Hemphill’s “how we got our blues-tongue” and itching to rewatch Sinners

@hasanthehun So when are you running in CA?

its white boy jihad summer

Percy Bysshe Shelley (from 𝘈 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺)

— Alice Notley

the sacred fruit

Mary Oliver on how books allowed her to survive her childhood:

as a tranny with religious trauma this quote hit me like a fucking freight train

Remember that war is a profitable business & weapon manufacturers are proudly watching their toys in action. Journalists are getting more TRP. Filmmakers running to get production rights. But it’s only little children on both sides who are being orphaned. Stop this death circus.