this slant of light

ID: "Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn't matter how good or how bad it is. You don't need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something. There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something."

— Ernest Hemingway, from The Complete Works; "The Old Man and the Sea,"

- Euripides, "Erakles"

— This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

sometimes i’ll be going about my day and then i’ll remember that in spanish they call their partner/soulmate “mi media naranja” (my half-orange) and i have to just. sit for a second

mi media naranja… 🍊

happiest moment by lydia davis

Petros Duryan, “What are you, love?” (via metamorphesque)

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

fatima aamer bilal, from if only love could save us.

Sophocles, Philoctetes

Donald Justice, from "There is a gold light in certain old paintings" [ID in ALT]

The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser

patricia lockwood

from one of my unfinished poems

Kaveh Akbar, "Famous Americans and Why They Were Wrong" from Pilgrim Bell