MY BELOVED

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

[vexheart]

[huckleberryhal]

Mary Oliver in “Dog Songs”

[mournfulroses]

Lin Ling, from a poem titled "Sinking, Endlessly Sinking," featured in Women Poets of China

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 3. (1923-1927)

[talktomeafter12]

When Franz Kafka said, "I ran from love because I knew it would destroy me. " but Fyodor Dostoevsky said, "I ran into love because I needed it to destroy who I used to be. "

[foreverlostinliterature]

Zhongshuge Bookstore | Chongqing, China

[literaryvein]

L. V., excerpts from the afterword

[writersisland]

flower symbolisms ❀

american starwort: welcome to a stranger

arbor vitæ: live for me

austrian rose: thou art all that is lovely

belvedere: i declare against you

branch of currants: you please all

campion rose: only deserve my love

coltsfoot: justice shall be done

currant: thy frown will kill me

daily rose: thy smile i aspire to

four-leaved clover: be mine

hemlock: you will be my death

honeysuckle: generous and devoted affection

ice plant: your looks freeze me

japan rose: beauty is your only attraction

justicia: the perfection of female loveliness

love lies bleeding: hopeless, not heartless

maiden blush rose: if you love me, you will find out

mourning bride: i have lost all

peach blossom: i am your captive

purple lilac: first emotions of love

spindle tree: your charms are engraven on my heart

tussilage: justice shall be done to you

vernal grass: poor, but happy

volkamenia: may you be happy

white rose (dried): death preferable to loss of innocence

yellow rose: decrease of love

zinnia: thoughts of absent friends

source: greenaway, kate: language of flowers. london 1884.

[russianblush]

no ai usage over here. you’re gonna get my shitty authentic writing whether you like it or not

[theunfortunate-author]

i'll go down with this ship if i must

[theoptia]

Simone Weil, from Gravity and Grace

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫𝔞’𝔰 𝔡𝔴𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔭𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔢

[academiabutmakeitdiverse]

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies. - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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[bookmatter]

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[lone-nyctophile]

Poetry is what helps me remember that even in my fragments, I am whole.

- Jennifer Huang

[candiedspit]

July