Sparks of a memory younger than noon

How do we forgive ourselves for the things we do not become?

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Mary Shelley, from her novel titled "Frankenstein," originally published in 1818

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Rosa Chacel, from a diary entry featured in Diario, originally published in 1993

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William Morris, from a poem titled "September," featured in Poems by the Way, originally published in 1891

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[bitchontheprairie]

carved into a cobblestone in brussels, photo via maarten inghels

[roua-poemului]

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[promqueendyke]

mihaly zichy ‘romantic encounter’ + these violent delights, micah nemerever 

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[heavensghost]

I picture it soft and I ache!

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[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— virginia woolf , carlyle's house and other sketches (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[weltenwellen]

Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

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— natalie díaz, from “american arithmetic”, postcolonial love poem (via letsbelonelytogetherr)