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English Literature Major/Poetry/Classic Lit/Nerd/Painter/Writer

[seraphinesaintclair]

Seraphine Saintclair, “Will I sing for her on a star?”

[mournfulroses]

Ernest Hemingway, from a letter to Marlene Dietrich featured in The Selected Letters of Ernest Hemingway

[mournfulroses]

Anton Chekhov, from The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov; "Platonov,"

[mournfulroses]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, from a letter featured in The Life & Letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[aridante]

the complete works: the diary, virginia woolf // erasure, zoë lianne // dandelion wine, ray bradbury // the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath // the women, kim addonizio // august, mary oliver // the moon and more, sarah dessen // high bridge park, carlie hoffman.

[dadaaesthetic]

"I've heard wings in my heart"

Arthur Rimbaud

[dadaaesthetic]

Fernando Pessona_The Book of Disquiet

[weltenwellen]

Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation by Victoria Chang, Prageeta Sharma & Khaty Xiong

[askyea-poesy]

If today feels heavy, carry it lightly. If it feels empty, fill it with the smallest comforts. A warm drink. An uplifting song. Soft clothes. A deep breath. You don't have to fix today. You just have to move through it.

Vex King

[mournfulroses]

Marcel Proust, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Marcel Proust

[weltenwellen]

Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. by Yvette Siegert, from “Psychopathology Ward”, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

[mournfulroses]

Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to Robert Sherrod featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

[mournfulroses]

Eugenio Montale, from a poem titled "Dora Markus," featured in Selection of Modern Italian Poetry

[oldpaintings]

Nenuphars (Water Lilies), 1895 by Isaak Levitan (Russian, 1860–1900)

[mournfulroses]

Andrei Tarkovsky, from a diary entry featured in Time Within Time; Selected Diaries

[thoughtkick]

“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

— Karl Lagerfeld

[lunamonchtuna]

— June Gehringer, ‘I get so jealous of euthanized dogs’ (via lunamonchtuna)