chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]
Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir
oh you’re a writer? how’s doing everything you can to avoid writing going?
— ANNE SEXTON, from Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward.
“Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.”
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
dead poets society (1989, written by tom schulman)
my life is a constant cycle of me deciding to get my shit together and me deciding to not give a fuck and giving up
The greatest pleasure of life is sensation,
To feel that we exist,
Even in pain.
-Lord Byron
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Donna Tartt, The Secret History
There is another world
But it is made inside this one