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“You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move.”
— Rainer Marie Rilke, letter to Sidonie Nádherná von Borutín, August 1, 1913, translated by Ulrich Baer (via lostography)
being a girl is having the most realistic, gut-wrenching dream explaining the meaning of life by mythical entities and transcending to another realm of consciousness, only to then wake up and having to get groceries or take a bus while pretending that everything is fine and your soul didn't just die in another dimension
“Touch me. As I am. As you can. My heart is a bird’s heart just beyond your hand.”
— Christian Wiman, from “Flight,” Survival is a Style: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2020) (via The Vale of Soul-Making)