Sword Illustrations by Ma-Ko (2018-21)
i might be annoying on tumblr but i'm also absolutely insufferable in real life too
Chen Chen, from “Craft Capsule: On Becoming a Pop Star, I Mean, a Poet”
[text ID: For years I believed poetry was the only place where I could be all my selves, any self. I wrote, trying to answer the question, “How can a poem hold the myriad me’s and realms and loves and ferocities and shards and velocities—this whole multiverse that the life cannot, yet?” But can a poem do this? A book of poems? Is poetry a place?
I am a poet because I ask poetry to do too much, and then it does it.]
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, But you can start where you are and change the ending.”
— Unknown
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
LOVE IS THE WHOLE POINT. OF IT ALL
“And then we are simply falling— And the world goes by, all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last;”
— Louise Glück, Poem; Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
Clouds Over Olana by Frederic Edwin Church + invisible string by Taylor Swift
— Sylvia Plath, from "Letters Home"
[text ID: I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.]
Daisy
sorry i can’t come over, im ill with the human experience
if not, winter by sappho // ampio orizzonte by ettore tito // lesbos by sylvia plath
“Yes, you’ve entered my bloodstream, the room, the whole springtime is filled with you…”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from Selected Poems (via soracities)
I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I’ve really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened.
Liu Xiaodong, The Lovers
a collection of (most of) the flora I drew this year, I can’t wait to make bigger and better floral illustrations in 2022





