“A lot of people are afraid of snakes. Not me. All the snakes are very nice. The snakes are an ancestral symbol of wisdom.
Many divinities were associated with snakes. The God of health has two snakes; you see them on the pharmacists’ signs. It’s also well known that the most prevalent paranoia is the fear of snakes. Cats come second, and then spiders. The snake is also the symbol of eternity and renewal.”
Margaret Atwood, from “Two Solicitudes,” orginally published c. 1998
“Slowly I dance out of the burning house of my head.”
— Mark Strand, from The Compete Poems; “The Way It Is,” wr. c. June 1975
(via violentwavesofemotion)
i live for older girls who take care of you and give you advice on weird things w/o judging bc they’ve experienced it and are just so warm. my only goal in life is to be that for others one day
all I ever hope to be
“How little you were when you started wanting your mother to love you less—so it wouldn’t kill her to know you’d been hurt.”
— Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies (via buttonpoetry)
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
— José N. Harris
lockednlotus
violentwavesofemotion
“A lot of people are afraid of snakes. Not me. All the snakes are very nice. The snakes are an ancestral symbol of wisdom.
Many divinities were associated with snakes. The God of health has two snakes; you see them on the pharmacists’ signs. It’s also well known that the most prevalent paranoia is the fear of snakes. Cats come second, and then spiders. The snake is also the symbol of eternity and renewal.”
Margaret Atwood, from “Two Solicitudes,” orginally published c. 1998
