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s.her | XX. someonefeelings

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[vaninnavaninni]

“You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.”

— Giovanni Boccaccio (b. 16 June 1313)

[heavensghost]

shame is sharp, and my skin gives so easy

[toiich]

James Baldwin

[nixscriptum]

[angesirene]

“—light of the world, hold me.”

— Mary Oliver, excerpt of “That Sweet Flute John Clare”, in West Wind (via antigonick)

[angelicdewdrop]

[angelicdewdrop]

[thenightlymirror]

James Baldwin.

[angelicdewdrop]

[weltenwellen]

Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from “I Went Out to Hear”

[academic-vampire]

𝔟 & 𝔴

[achillesinhighheels]

Details of French armor 1575–80.

[mournfulroses]

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, translated by Babette Deutsch, from “You Appeared,”

[lunamonchtuna]

— Rachel Mennies, from The Naomi Letters "April 18, 2017" (via lunamonchtuna)

[archetype-femme-fatale]

cycles of yearning

[mournfulroses]

Gabriela Mistral, from a poem titled "The Teacher's Prayer," featured in The Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral