“To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create.”
— Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“And you are my sacred book. My poem.”
– Umar Timol, from “Blood”, translated by Susan Wicks
23.01.20 Venezia
Allen Ginsberg: Some things, once you've loved them, become yours forever. And if you try to let them go, they only circle back and return to you. They become part of who you are...
Lucien Carr: ...or they destroy you.
06.12.19 Manchester
“There’s a time for daring and there’s a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.” - Dead Poets Society
23.12.19 Manchester
“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” - Oscar Wilde
richard siken, the torn-up road
“I was looked at, but I wasn’t seen.”
- Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding
shoutout to my favorite coping mechanism, isolation
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