Inscription That I Am Obsessed With

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

“I want you to do this with me for one month. One month. Write 10 observations a week and by the end of four weeks, you will have an answer. Because when someone writes about the rustic gutter and the water pouring through it onto the muddy grass, the real pours into the room. And it’s thrilling. We’re all enlivened by it. We don’t have to find more than the rustic gutter and the muddy grass and the pouring cold water.”

— Marie Howe, Boston University’s 2016 Theopoetics Conference  (via mothersofmyheart)

This dude better marry her fast or someone is gonna try to steal her away

boys will be boys

“Mad, but beautifully mad, hypnotised by the gaze of the self into self,”

— Carolyn Kizer, from Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems; “Hera, Hung from the Sky,”

something else i've been thinking about lately is how much more alive houses are to people who experience domestic abuse. some things in the house are protectors - the door to your room that swings shut behind you without you pushing it, the stairs that always creak loud enough to let you know that someone's coming before they get there... whereas other things are alive with malice - the cabinets that slam and the dishes that break, the vacuum cleaner that always manages to sound angry and accusing. the whole house listens, and the whole house remembers, and everything takes sides.

me, looking back on it all:

X

M. A. Thompson - I Won’t Write My Poem ‘Till I’m In My Right Mind X

Mary Oliver X

Richard Siken - road music

George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) in her letter to Gustave Flaubert X

Ada Limón - The Carrying X

Nikki Giovanni - Mirrors X

“I just want to be kind in a world that isn’t”

Call me by your name (2017)

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Volodya: Selected Works; from ‘I love’, tr. George Reavey