falta de sosiego

[mournfulroses]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a poem titled "Interim," featured in The Complete Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay

[weltenwellen]

Wildness Before Something Sublime Leila Chatti

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Ma Chih-yuan, from a poem titled "Lamenting Life," featured in The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry

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“My anger scares me, my fear scares me, and somewhere in there is shame, too — why am I so enraged and so scared? I am afraid of going to bed and of waking up; afraid of tomorrow and of all the tomorrows after.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

[metamorphesque]

haiku #4, tathev simonyan

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟼 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[perfectquote]

“Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn’t waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.”

— Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

[shisasan]

May 23, 1905 Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: a love story in letters (1897-1926)

[metamorphesque]

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

[shisasan]

May 16, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927   [volume 3] 

[shisasan]

May 14, 1915 The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923

[mournfulroses]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Olive Higgins Prouty written c. 1950, featured in The Collected Letters

[inkpressedpetals]

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from a letter to María Casares featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[petaltexturedskies]

Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[shisasan]

May 6, 1925 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[weltenwellen]

Carl Phillips, from “Civilization”, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020