February 2012
75 posts
“You cannot save people, you can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin
greek fact of the day: the word ἐρως, where we get “erotic,” is usually used in reference to either the god of romantic love or the loving itself. in a more general sense, though, it just means “longing” or “need.”
“As the son of Poros and Penia, [Eros’s] lot in life is set to be like theirs. In the first place, he is always poor, and he’s far...
if you're ever trying to figure out how i feel...
just assume i am second-guessing whatever my most recent decision was and proceed from there
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...”
– Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly...”
– Vincent van Gogh
“It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“then this is what it is to love something which is not at hand, which the lover does not have: it is to desire the preservation of what he now has in time to come, so that he will have it then.” - plato, symposium 200d
god damn if there is anything harder than realizing you can’t be happy in a relationship with the person you love for the foreseeable future i don’t know...
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the prayer of a distant lover
stay, you said, last summer, and the word swallowed the silence around our newly still selves, so i could only respond in the language of our lips pressed together
one person always breaks a kiss first
one of us always has to leave
i whisper “stay” to my sheets now in a bed you’ve never seen, as if you could hear me a country away. stay in the space i’ve reserved between...
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath
