A Poet Reflects: christinasanantonio: “So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To...

christinasanantonio:

“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. With masks down, I walk, talking to the moon, to the neutral impersonal force that does not hear, but merely accepting my being. And does not smite me down.”

—Sylvia Plath, from “Cambridge Notes,” in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008)

(Source: theburnthatkeepseverything)

It doesn’t matter anymore who leaves

What matters is who stays,

I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don’t deserve it, that i wouldn’t be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn’t given up and had fought to the end
— Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone

Break

Breaks

Broke

Broken

Breaking

No matter what tense, everything means the same.

I

Need

A

Break